Guerrilla Bike Lanes in San Francisco
As a life-long New Yorker (Manhattan and more recently Brooklyn) I just don&#x27;t understand why anyone would ever ride a bike in NYC, period. I even stopped rollerblading in NYC when some asshole driving backwards (presumably to get a parking spot) nearly killed me and did knock me silly.<p>I have a motorcycle license I got one summer when I had free time. I learned that cars and pedestrians are your enemy, and that you will probably regret being a motorcyclist eventually. So I quickly stopped.<p>The simple answer is to not bike in NYC, or get rid of cars in NYC. Although I have moved to Brooklyn, I think the &quot;get rid of cars&quot; is in Manhattan is a great idea.<p>But, if we must bike, by all means, let&#x27;s get segregated bike lanes. I have seen them in Union Square, around Prospect Park, and other places. BUT!<p>That said, bikes are worse than cars IMO in yielding right of way to pedestrians. I was nearly killed by a high speed biker IN A CROSSWALK ACROSS A SEGREGATED BIKE LANE outside the Intrepid museum nearly a month ago, and the moron had the gall to yell at me as he barely missed me to watch where <i>I</i> was going. Literally two seconds later nearly the same thing happens with another biker. Insane.<p>Furthermore, bikes don&#x27;t remotely follow the rules of the road. Stop lights? Ignored. One way streets - or even one way bike lanes - ignored. No riding on sidewalks? Well, mostly followed. Pfew.<p>As a pedestrian, I fear bikes more than cars. They are silent, they are fearless (if they weren&#x27;t they would not ride like this), and they don&#x27;t care about pedestrians.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d rather get rid of bikes entirely, or at least put a cop at every corner writing expensive NYC moving violations to each bicyclist when they inevitably break the law. A million citations a day would be fine by me, and would help pay for more shared infrastructure like subways, bus lanes, and, yes, even segregated bicycle lanes.