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People on bikes may be rude and may not follow the rules, but can't be aggressive.
When a man with a .45 meets a man with a rifle, the man with a pistol will be a dead man.
Original stripe from the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/bum-rush-hour-1846606314
Cross-posted from: https://mastodon.uno/users/rivoluzioneurbanamobilita/statuses/113615912203015089
I fucking hate dodging cyclists, especially when visiting my mom in the country side, single lanes, poor visibility, god forbid it's summer and everyone's out fucking cycling. You know where I never had to go around a cyclist? Literally any Dutch city I visited, because bikes lanes are almost completely separate. Driving in the Netherlands is fucking great. Despite the bike infrastructure, drivers aren't at all compromised. Just look at their highways, shit looks like a copy paste of American highways.
This is what you people sound to me like ever since my trip in the Netherlands: