Are cyclists and pedestrians getting more suicidal? - Or is it just my neck of the woods?

[Doseferatu]

I'm noticing that bicyclists want to make cities more inaccessible to drivers in addition to wanting to take over the roads, and pedestrians aren't doing any better: as a matter of fact, they're now walking down the middle of busy roads with their back to traffic.

Whenever I walk somewhere, I spend as little time on the roads as possible, but I've seen pedestrians post about how they should take their leisurely time doing so. They claim they want to carry bricks to "dissuade" drivers from hurrying them along.

Did the "protests" in the streets of the US and UK make this situation worse? Is it deteriorating conditions in Western countries?

Today, a pair of bicyclists decided to not stop for a stop sign - that's what killed a black kid on a bike months back in this area.

 

[eatler]

No drivers got worse. Driving and walking anywhere sucks.

 

[Osama Bin Laden]

i only hate people who act like pricks because they have the right of way

move over grandma, or the reindeer ain’t
gonna be the only thing you get ran over

 

[Richard_Wetpasta]

Theres an argument to be made that city planners seem to engineer driver/pedestrian conflict for no apparent fucking reason. One of the worst offenders is this exact layout in my state that they keep putting goddamn everywhere. It basically forces traffic interaction between modes of transportation that are functionally incompatible.

You literally cant put this layout anywhere the speed limits are over 20 mph. I dont know if its zealous environmentalism causing them to ignore the functional incompatibility of cars and bikes or if theyre just trying to tick off boxes and say look we're a cyclist friendly town! But everywhere they try to put weird "bike friendly" layouts side by side with real vehicular traffic the fatality rates are high.

 

[Buck Breaking SS]

It's also drivers that have gotten worse. My town had TWO, FUCKING TWO people drive into a wall IN A WEEK. And each time God as much as sneezes with mild rain, the whole traffic goes apeshit.

 

[Uncle Phil]

The local junkies and other assorted low-utility faggots in my town have gotten worse as pedestrians. Definitely noticing higher rates of jaywalking without paying attention or just outright walking in front of oncoming vehicles and counting on the world to stop for them.

I don't mind hearing about them being run over on occasion. Self-correcting problem.

 

[theshitposter]

longcovid effect

 

[Absolutego]

It's also drivers that have gotten worse. My town had TWO, FUCKING TWO people drive into a wall IN A WEEK. And each time God as much as sneezes with mild rain, the whole traffic goes apeshit.

Not sure how it is in your neck of the woods, but in my area every other car has some "Student Driver, plz no bully" sticker on it and inevitably whenever you drive past them (going 15 under the limit in the passing lane), it's some fresh off the boat H1-B employee who probably never drove anything bigger than a tuktuk in Hyderabad or wherever.

 

[parsnip]

The number of times I have been almost run over by a cyclist ignoring a red light is ridiculous. My sister had a cyclist run into her car while she was making a legal and properly signalled turn, and then yell at her that he was going to press charges. They seem to think traffic laws don't apply to them at all, at least in my city.

 

[eatler]

Not sure how it is in your neck of the woods, but in my area every other car has some "Student Driver, plz no bully" sticker on it and inevitably whenever you drive past them (going 15 under the limit in the passing lane), it's some fresh off the boat H1-B employee who probably never drove anything bigger than a tuktuk in Hyderabad or wherever.

Mines oops all old people so you get people who drive 20 under the speed limit. It really makes me wish we forced them to retake the test (because 10-1 they need new glasses of just aren’t capable to drive anymore) or just take away the license entirely. I could though see how that could be bad, it just sucks that it’s borderline dangerous how they dive coupled with insane pajeet truck drivers.