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57 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah.  That ain't gonna happen.  Shit, just yesterday, was driving down Mesa.  Which has a clearly marked and very good bike lane.  What did I get held up behind?  47 dipshits who thought they were in the Tour de France.

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Bike lanes are just one more traffic law/device for cyclists to ignore.

One of my proudest moments was when I was referenced on a local cyclist message board as someone to look out for when riding through our neighborhood, a favorite of local middle-aged spandex lovers.   The incident that led to it was a cyclist riding into our driveway to accost my wife while our kids were in the car, screaming at her at the top of his lungs because she didn't use her signal when turning left into our driveway (he was riding behind her, so it impacted him in no way at all).  He didn't expect to see me coming out the front door, and when he did, his eyes went as wide as saucers as I was breathing fire.  He wasn't quite as tough and mean when he was no longer facing a woman and children.   He was also lucky to leave the property in one piece.  His agility and speed in running away from me due to all the biking were no doubt an asset to him.  Anyway, he went to the Internet and posted a hilarious warning to all cyclists to beware the monster who lives on my corner.  I see him riding form time to time, often weaving in and out of the bike lane, never stopping at stop signs, and generally being a standard issue cyclist asshole.  He doesn't ride past my house anymore, though.

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5 hours ago, PvilleStang said:

Why the hell do these morons have such a bike lane fetish?!  I bet if you surveyed, there's less than 5% of people that actually commute via bike.  We're constantly bowing to the pressures of these bike goons and making vehicle traffic worse so they can pretend to be Lance Armstrong for those three weeks a year the weather allows it.

It's not a bike lane fetish, it's the "make using the internal combustion engine as painful as possible" fetish.

"if you care so much about vehicle traffic why not take the train, bus, walk or bike" - city council member who drives to work

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44 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

It's not a bike lane fetish, it's the "make using the internal combustion engine as painful as possible" fetish.

"if you care so much about vehicle traffic why not take the train, bus, walk or bike" - city council member who drives to work

Ah yes, ACC's Rules for Thee but not for Me policies.

But there is absolutely a large group of cyclist douches online that fight for these bike lanes all over town, only to rarely use them in the end.  Narrow decent roads to allow for a bike lane that's utilized a handful of times a day all while causing tremendous traffic issues.  They are pushing for some mythical city where they can get from Sprouts to Trader Joes to In-N-Out to their colonic appointments while never actually having to follow any traffic laws.

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30 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

Ah yes, ACC's Rules for Thee but not for Me policies.

But there is absolutely a large group of cyclist douches online that fight for these bike lanes all over town, only to rarely use them in the end.  Narrow decent roads to allow for a bike lane that's utilized a handful of times a day all while causing tremendous traffic issues.  They are pushing for some mythical city where they can get from Sprouts to Trader Joes to In-N-Out to their colonic appointments while never actually having to follow any traffic laws.

in our office we've called this "Goreville" for the past couple of decades.

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It's not a bike lane fetish, it's the "make using the internal combustion engine as painful as possible" fetish.
"if you care so much about vehicle traffic why not take the train, bus, walk or bike" - city council member who drives to work

I wouldn’t mind taking the bus, but the #3 express ends at 71 instead of continuing down Manchaca.

If they want less people on the road, they need to make using public transportation more convenient, which for most of us means the bus, not a train.

Fat chance of that though.
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I was driving home from Moody the other night at close to midnight so it's dark out. On some main street running N/S in East Austin with double yellow lines dividing traffic. This kid on a lime scooter coming the other direction swerves into me from the edge of the street almost right into my lane (he maybe got to within a feet of the dividing line as I passed him) and then turns behind me into whatever cross-street was intersecting. 

I wasn't speeding or being careless but I was going probably 35 or 40 and had to hit the brakes/slow down to make sure he didn't hit me.

Like - hey dude - if you want to kill yourself being a dipshit in traffic then go ahead - but that's not an incident I'm trying to deal with on my way home. 

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