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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] REgon@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 3 points 1 week ago

Jokes on you I'd get the wall in MY socialist utopia too

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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