Faced with a car parked in a cycle lane most people will go around it. This guy takes a different approach to the obstacle and in the process clears the way for other cyclists.
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Faced with a car parked in a cycle lane most people will go around it. This guy takes a different approach to the obstacle and in the process clears the way for other cyclists.
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Oh yeah! Onya matey! Way to go. Show them who’s boss…yeah! Fantastic!
Bravo. Actions speak. As do tweets: https://twitter.com/YouShallNotPath
Total wanker. The Neanderthal was way over the top and damaged the car next to it.
Excellent work by that man! The only wanker was the car owner who selfishly parked over a cycle lane and blocked it.
Harder than it looks! Cars are sort of… heavy. I tried it once, and bugger me, it nearly ripped my fingers off.
He’s a big fellow.
Superb effort. Biggest current problem is ignoramus drivers drivers who seem to think footpaths and cycleways are road extensions and dangerously cross them at speed without even bothering to look for pedestrians or cyclists.
Great stuff.
Very appropriate as someone tried to drive at me for insisting on my right to walk across a driveway unimpeded
Just a note on this issue in general. Urban places are chaotic by nature. Look at the cities you like best, whether New York or San Francisco, or London or Hong Kong. A certain amount of “non-compliance” is inevitable and needs to be tolerated. A sanitized city would have no charm unless fascism is charming. Loading is universally a principal source of this “charm” as a symptom of density, and everyone “benefits” from it – pedestrians, drivers, cyclists, dog, cats, footpath repair companies, and often the businesses that rely on incoming goods to stay alive. It can be managed but never eliminated. I’m not averse to designing in a little chaos here and there.
Last week on Friday on the separated cycle lanes on Quay St, lady exiting her red Starlet from one of the businesses there, completely blocking the cycleway due to the traffic on Quay St. One cyclist ahead of me just goes around by riding onto the street, I approach and stop to ask her to move back so that the cycleway is passable. She grumbles “share with care”. I choke “how can I share when you’re completely blocking it”, answer censored. This is way too common…. On similar topic, I think we should buy Len Brown a tank and get him to roam streets of Auckland, especially bus lanes with it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-fWN0FmcIU