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"This is so dangerous!", laments the woman driving directly into a Critical Mass bike ride (video.twimg.com)
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This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It's not legal, but protests are never useful if they're fully legal now, are they.

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[–] Geldaran@lemmy.world 2 points 5 minutes ago

As a Bicycle commuter... there's plenty of "Am I the Asshole?" that needs to go around here.

I understand the cyclists are treating this as a protest, but unless the road is closed, get the hell out of the oncoming lane. You're not doing anything here other than confirming the drivers bias that you're the problem.

As for the driver, just fucking STOP until they pass. Is the risk of you hitting someone worth the few minutes that pulling over out of the way costs you? The driver's pissing and moaning on the video is some self-entitled bull shit.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

She sure is.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, in Germany: §1 StVO

[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

Meanwhile, in Germany they think people can read german

[–] eluvinar@szmer.info 1 points 16 minutes ago

pretty sure that's true everywhere that has signed the vienna convention on road traffic, so like 86 countries

[–] ragas@lemmy.ml 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Where I live, critical mass is legal. Bikes can go on the street and we have a law that allows multiple vehicles that move as one to be treated like one vehicle.

[–] OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Where is it legal to drive in the oncoming lane?

[–] chaitae3@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The organizers will inform the city that a critical mass protest is taking place, the city will inform the police and they will cordon off the route. If there are enough people talking part in the protest, the public order authorities will have no other choice - thus the name critical mass. The right to protest takes precedence over the right to drive this specific route.

[–] eluvinar@szmer.info 2 points 14 minutes ago

that's a different setup than the one OpenPassageways described.

[–] CBYX@feddit.org 21 points 12 hours ago

And recording while driving...

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 38 points 17 hours ago

lots of people in this thread that don't understand how protests work.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can’t see it; “failed to load media”.

[–] noname_yet2077@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Idiots in cars, idiots on bikes. Hell yeah I'm pro bikes but setting a wheel on incoming lane? Yeaah.. no thanks, I'm fine

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