With a full list of spots where you can speed, and potentially kill people.

I'm a food delivery guy in Hungary. I work with a bycicle so naturally all carbrains hate me for existing. Wich is fine, I don't care about the hate, I just want to earn some money and commute with my legs.

BUT

I had some encounters with some insane drivers. Sh*t happens daily yknow, someone almost riding me over and such. They always want to push me off the road and steer my way internationally, speeding by me inches away, the average stuff.

So let's jump to the actual purpose of this post. I want to vent it out and also warn you guys, it's really deadly out there. I had two accidents that almost got fatal. Of course, neither of then was my fault. Both of them was in an intersection, I was heading forward, and the drivers wanted to go left, I had the right of way both times. The first one happened last november, I got hit frontal, the next thing I know, I was sitting on the road looking the direction I was going from. My bike got crashed, lost one of my teeth. Long story short, I'm getting my insurance soon. But today morning was different. I was going to school. Same scenario, but the driver clearly saw me and I was already in the intersection, but that didn't stop him. He sped up, went into my rear wheel, I almost lost control but luckily I could go onto the sidewalk and didn't die. And he just sped away. This... I have no words for, that guy was a fkincg psychopath, really, this was an attempted murder. I'm lost for words really, I was so shocked that someone tried to internationally kill me.

I don't think drivers recognize that it's a PERSON riding a bike, a living human, and not a bycicle just rolling around.

Sorry if this post is all over the place, it's my first post ever on reddit, feel free to ask for any detail, or about my work. Thanks for reading my rant, bye!

Let me preface this with saying I understand the benefits and practicalities of utilizing other modes of transformation. I enjoy riding my bike and have no problem with using public transportation… however… I love driving my car. It gives me my own space, i’m safe, climate control, my own music, i’m on my own schedule, it’s clean, sanitary. Even if it takes a bit longer, i’m still autonomous. It’s an adventure I’m in control of. I know i’m able to depend on myself if I need to move large objects, it’s always ready to go regardless of weather or scheduling. I don’t need to sit on a seat thousands of people have sat on, put headphones in and cancel out the world around me. I don’t have to lug my belongings down sidewalks or through buses etc. I work very hard, I take pride in my car. I enjoy using it. Not to mention you need transportation from automobiles. Theres a demand to carry large objects with ease and efficiency. What about emergency services, there needs to be quick transportation that’s reliable. Large bus and train parts and water heaters for houses have to be transported by large vehicles. Grocery stores need mass food quantities delivered. Transporting livestock etc. The world needs cars to continue, most things in your life wouldn’t have been made possible without our current setup. Now, it can definitely improve, i’m not dumb. But like, why use public transport if you have a more efficient means to do so. Obviously long trips it makes sense to use trains or planes etc.. but like what are you proving by doing everything by bike, or train? Is it an income issue? Is this an adopted personality that makes you seem better than other people? Again, I love just walking streets… but even those streets allow cars at certain hours in order to do deliveries and maintenance etc on our houses and buildings. You can’t empty a septic tank and drive it all away on a wagon attached to a bike… ya feel me? There’s a middle ground, but y’all seem a bit extreme. Obviously not everyone here is 100% against cars etc. But like, ask yourself… why are you against it really? If you could afford a car would you be against it? If you had available parking at your building would you? Why are you taking these other modes of transportation.. is it because cars envoke a physical sense of hate within you, or another reason?

I live in the UK, and I browse this sub semi often, I have something to say. Car culture in the US seems like it's more more about the necessity, like clothes, and people use expensive or flashy clothes to flex, they end up doing this with their trucks or cars. If you don't have a car in the US, you may as well be disabled, people pity you almost. Having no car in the US is a sentence to having no life or job as you can't go anywhere, work, activities or anything. Pedestrians are seen as a nuisance to vehicles, public transit is known for having dangerous people on there. In the UK, things are a lot different, people will usually have mum and dad pay for lessons, insurance and their first car, and it is seen as weird if you don't have a lisence by your early 20s. The UK car culture is less based on necessity but ego, we have mostly functional transit systems here bar trains, they are awful currently. Transit is seen for the lazy. The hierarchial system works like this where I live. No licence? You'll be bullied or called lazy/poor. Smaller more lower grade car? You get bullied on the road, drivers with more expensive cars will cut you off, flip you off and generally be rude? Mid car? Yeah basically invisible to most. Higher grade vehicle? They seem to get passes, they're usually middle to upper class people, BMWs, range drivers and electric vehicle owners are notorious for their horrible bullying behaviours of other drivers. Additional comment, in the UK, it seems women will choose a guy based on what car he drives, not what he uses it for.

Hello, I am hoping for some advice here. I live in a typical rust belt working class suburb where there are more Ford F-150s than school children, and the town is built like it. I hit my breaking point and started going to local board meetings. I thought I’d start at bike racks because the one thing car brains and I can agree upon is guaranteed parking. No building in my town has bike racks, not even grocery stores. I found a code requiring a bike rack in all nonresidential and multi family homes; a minimum of 2, up to 20 spaces, at 10% of the car parking requirements, and they were to be placed at the building’s entrance. I read that and thought “Checkmate! This is all I need!”. I attended a meeting where they were approving a new business and the re-zoning of an 8 unit appartment complex. They ensured both businesses had ample parking, but did not mention bike racks.

I finally got up there and gave my piece and quoted the code and they gaslit me into why it wasn’t being enforced, saying “businesses are retro-fitted” or something, and they further gaslit me by asking if I “tried emailing the businesses”. Like that’s not my responsibility. There is literally a law that it’s your job to enforce, but of course I was very nervous and did not have a good comeback. It ended with me pleading that they start enforcing this code and think of all people and not just cars in further planning. They just silently nodded and I went to my seat.

My question is how do I force them to enforce the codes that they’re tasked with enforcing? On paper, I have just as much right to parking as car owners but they are the middle men between what’s on paper and reality and clearly they don’t see it that way, and no one is holding them accountable.

This may be an interesting game of catch up in the next few decades where the 3rd world countries still wanting to emulate the 1st world would eventually overhaul their public transit.

I see lots of bad driving behavior from the owners of Ram pickup trucks. Perhaps Toyota wants part of the action. Disappointing.

For context, I live in Zone 2, about a 20 minute bus ride from Big Ben.

I was on my bike dropping off my kid at pre-school when a driver in a white Mercedes flew around the corner on the wrong side of the line. I had to suddenly stop so he didn’t plough into us. He parked his car and an altercation ensued, during which he shouted “I know how to drive. I’ve got MY driving licence” like he was insinuating that I should be driving.

I have a driving licence. I just don’t use it in central London, for roughly the same reason I don’t shit on my own doorstep.

I saw the headline and thought "that's great" and then I read the read the rest of the content. I missed the politician at the door, but they've lost my vote straight away with this. What is wrong with making our roads safer for everyone? For context Waterford is the smallest city in Ireland and there are three entrances to the industrial estate which are commute t by a dual carriageway which bypasses the city.

Also, "traffic chaos," why not improve public transport services to and from the areas they mention instead? I understand not everyone can be car-independent, but surely we should be encouraging those who can be, to be?