Imagine you live in a carcentric society and you take a person whose only conception of cars is gokarts they rode as a child. You then hand them the keys to a sportscar and send them on their merry way on the highway. That’s what it’s like to have a bunch of tourists on e-bikes in a city with bike-friendly infrastructure.
From my experience in the UK, they don’t have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what’s going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.
Look, I appreciate you’re trying to save the environment, but we have electric buses that will take you directly to the tourist attractions without congesting my already shitty cycling infrastructure. It’s bad enough having to cycle next to a wall of death (dual carriageway) without throwing a Wipeout obstacle in my way too.
I never cycled in a touristy bike friendly big city nor I ever rode an ebike. Maybe if you consider Bs As as bike-infrastructure-developed, but you gotta squint really hard for that. Sure, there are busy non-leisure cyclepaths, but you can count them with a hand.
I meant I behave like a really fast pedestrian hoping on and off sidewalks, using zebrapaths if I deem convenient and will never care if there’s a redlight as long as I don’t see cars about to hit me if I cross
If you’re guilty of this I want you to know you’d get the wall in my socialist utopia. We’d resurrect Stalin and make him read urban planning theory exclusively and then have him travel around Copenhagen in the summer with an AK47. (this is hyperboly)
Tbh I’d rather they drove cars because at least then they’d understand they’re in traffic and not out on a fun little adventure. They’d understand they’re controlling a moving vehicle at dangerous speeds and not just doing (what they think) is an alternative to pedestrianism.
It’s incredible how I’m inches away from terrible disasters every day because of some dumb american who decides to suddenly break in the middle of a bike highway or something. When they tell me to “relax” for yelling at them in reaction to them almost killing me, I should be allowed to hit them with a stick, like it used to be legal to do to swedes.
Also the roads are small and there’s no parking and lots of zones where cars aren’t allowed, so it would all in all mean I’d interact way less with them.
Now do one for me on my bike and a tourist on their rented e-bike. It should be legal to lance them
What’s the matter with ebiketourists?
Imagine you live in a carcentric society and you take a person whose only conception of cars is gokarts they rode as a child. You then hand them the keys to a sportscar and send them on their merry way on the highway. That’s what it’s like to have a bunch of tourists on e-bikes in a city with bike-friendly infrastructure.
From my experience in the UK, they don’t have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what’s going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.
Look, I appreciate you’re trying to save the environment, but we have electric buses that will take you directly to the tourist attractions without congesting my already shitty cycling infrastructure. It’s bad enough having to cycle next to a wall of death (dual carriageway) without throwing a Wipeout obstacle in my way too.
I never cycled in a touristy bike friendly big city nor I ever rode an ebike. Maybe if you consider Bs As as bike-infrastructure-developed, but you gotta squint really hard for that. Sure, there are busy non-leisure cyclepaths, but you can count them with a hand.
I meant I behave like a really fast pedestrian hoping on and off sidewalks, using zebrapaths if I deem convenient and will never care if there’s a redlight as long as I don’t see cars about to hit me if I cross
If you’re guilty of this I want you to know you’d get the wall in my socialist utopia. We’d resurrect Stalin and make him read urban planning theory exclusively and then have him travel around Copenhagen in the summer with an AK47. (this is hyperboly)
Jokes on you I’d get the wall in MY socialist utopia too
At least they’re not driving, right?
Tbh I’d rather they drove cars because at least then they’d understand they’re in traffic and not out on a fun little adventure. They’d understand they’re controlling a moving vehicle at dangerous speeds and not just doing (what they think) is an alternative to pedestrianism.
It’s incredible how I’m inches away from terrible disasters every day because of some dumb american who decides to suddenly break in the middle of a bike highway or something. When they tell me to “relax” for yelling at them in reaction to them almost killing me, I should be allowed to hit them with a stick, like it used to be legal to do to swedes.
Also the roads are small and there’s no parking and lots of zones where cars aren’t allowed, so it would all in all mean I’d interact way less with them.