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This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It's not legal, but protests are never useful if they're fully legal now, are they.

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[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Everyone except me is crazy."

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 43 points 1 day ago (33 children)

She definitely should have either stopped or gone a different route, but it is incredibly dangerous to cycle head onto incoming motor traffic. Not really a great look for the cyclists.

Better off staying in the correct lane but hogging it so vehicles had no choice but to stay behind.

[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I'm with you. I get this is a protest, but I don't protest gun violence against kids by parading them down a firing range. Taking up the whole road can result in you getting hurt, it doesn't matter what should be our what your ideals are. It's a road for cars and behaving like this increases the chance that someone gets hurt.

On top of that this does what every protest that interrupts traffic does, makes people dislike you and your cause.

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[–] philthi@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I agree that more bike lanes are needed and also cyclists need to be treated with the respect any life demands.

But flipping off a driver or generally blaming people who drive is fighting the wrong fight. I drive a car, I also cycle, being in a car doesn't make me anti-bike.

Fight the government - flip off the government - that is refusing to put in safe infrastructure for the bikes (with protests like this, of course. But don't flip off the driver, at best it does nothing, at worst it widens the gap between both groups and makes it easier to dehumanize and villianize the cyclists).

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 day ago

This isn't about flipping off a driver. This is flipping off a bad driver who doesn't understand that what they're doing is unsafe. They're flipping off bad behaviour.

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[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (6 children)

ITT: confounded folks who live in areas where Critical Mass events don't take place.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

While she is clearly a dumbass for not just parking and waiting, why is the bike ride taking up all of the lanes in both directions? Was the street blocked off and this lady ignored it?

Why was there an oncoming car in her lane?

This really needs context.

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The context is if the lane ahead of you is blocked you do NOT drive directly into it.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You do ride a bike directly into it though!

The video originally had a vague title and zero context, which is why I asked for some.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The OP has some context but Lemmy is bad about showing the text included with a media post so it's easy to miss. The OP states it's a "critical mass" protest where large numbers of cyclists reclaim the street to demand better bicycle infrastructure

[–] destructdisc@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I figured that was happening, which is why I updated the title to explicitly state it's a Critical Mass event

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 0 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 0 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

If a bunch of cars did the same thing would you call that a parade?

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