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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I walk and bike (driving makes my anxiety go crazy), cars never properly look out for us and it makes walking and biking way more dangerous than than it should be

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Where I live (Philly suburb) the vast majority of drivers are actually very respectful and considerate. Unfortunately, even if 99.9% of drivers are great about it, that still means 1 out of every 1000 cars that passes you is going to be taking your life into their hands. For as much biking as I do, that means about one scary incident a week.

I would never ride my bicycle in Philadelphia proper, just way too insane. Ironically enough, it's also the cyclists who are batshit crazy there - it's quite common to see people riding against traffic on streets with no shoulders, or sailing through red lights and stop signs without even looking first. Somehow it's never those riders who are killed. The regular bicycle deaths are almost always the result of large trucks turning right across the bike lanes and mowing somebody down.