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LiftyJoestar t1_j21zyxe wrote

As a car driver, yeah we all hate the bike lanes. A minority of people causing more congestion and demanding changes be made accommodating them are annoying. If you're bitching that hard, move to a different city. You're literally in the most expensive city in the world that's completely run on commuters and service workers. There are basic considerations when you move into the city, like transportation. Why are bikers specifically using an outdated mode of urban transportation? Use subways? Buses? Trains? I thought the tree-hugging bikers want to use more public transportation.

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birthdaycakefig t1_j221916 wrote

Why are car drivers not using the subway? Cars get to sit free and unused in a city that has some of the most expensive real estate. Cars cause over 46k deaths a year in the states. Cars make the city noisier than it needs to be. We should be making public transit and bikes accessible to more and more people so they don’t need to buy a car every couple of years.

Have you ever seen NYC without congestion? NYC has always had shit traffic, regardless of how many lanes. But now it’s the fault of bike lanes?

Bikes are cheaper, keep people healthy and is a fast and reliable way to move around a dense city.

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SolitaryMarmot t1_j2247vx wrote

I drive, mostly in the outer boroughs. I bought a car about 3 years ago for my non profit volunteer gig. I have NEVER once sat in traffic and said to myself...damn bike lanes are causing this. Literally never once. It's always some double parked car or truck holding up an entire block of too many cars. Or it's just too many cars going to the same chokepoint like a bridge or tunnel not obeying traffic laws and jamming up intersections for people trying to get across it. The worst traffic in the city is on roads without bike lanes...the BQE, the LIE, 11th Ave. A lot of the times I get off the roads with bike lanes and get on roads with bike lanes to avoid traffic. Blaming bike lanes for traffic is kind of like blaming aliens or a zombie hoard. Sure you can...but that doesn't make it real.

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