Manners only matter when someone else is being harmed by lack of manners. The bikes splitting lanes are using space that wouldn't otherwise by used by cars -- they're not slowing cars down, just forming a second line for their own use.
Not stopping IN THE PRESENCE OF CROSS TRAFFIC is creating the situation. This should be enforced. Doing an Idaho stop, slowing down, checking for traffic, should be fine. Dumbass.
Maybe the solution should be to require all cops to rotate through doing bike patrol for a month once every year or two. (a) it will help their physical fitness and (b) getting them out of their cars will force them to empathize with other road users.
Not exactly.
Most accidents happen during takeoff or landing. Turboprop planes tend to fly shorter flight legs, therefore more takeoffs/landings per hour, even 4x as more. (This even takes slower speed into account).
Dash-8s work fine with jetways -- they need an adapter gangway that mates to the lower door height. But the same applies to small jet aircraft like the ERJ, CRJ, and BAE146. The reason jetways aren't used for many short-haul flights isn't due to aircraft type, but because smaller airports and regional terminals weren't set up for them.
Talk to me when you've flown on Spirit or Ryanair even for a 2-3 hour flight. The only good thing about Spirit is that you can usually get an upgrade to the front/1st-class seats for $75 or so.
Flights are cheaper today if you don't have exact requirements as to WHEN you want to fly. Also, I recall people in the 80s and 90s paying $50 to fly standby coast-to-coast.
If the cyclist dies, then there's often only one witness: the motorist.
As far as the cop being interviewed, there are no hard numbers, just his opinion.
Yep, if only for safety. Small-pitch seats are much more difficult to evacuate in an emergency than seats with more legroom. There should be actual, live-person evacuation tests for any proposed seating configuration of an aircraft, not just for the manufacturer's original/intended seating plan.
Nope. If you can see that there aren't any cars within a block or two, there's no risk from the lack of all-around vision of a driver.
This is just "kindergarten" rule-making -- wait your turn like a good child.
So use more efficient aircraft for medium and shorter haul flights. Dash-8 Q400 can have decent seat pitch and still use less fuel/resources than jet aircraft. Perfect for routes like New York-Toronto-Montreal where Porter Airlines uses it, without compromising service.
Yeah, yeah, ignorant people are scared of a "prop plane..."
Go back to live evacuation tests. Require that they use airline CEOs, upper management, and their families as the test subjects... If the plane can't be evac'ed in 90 seconds without injury, increase seat pitch and try again.
If a few airline upper managers get hurt during an evacuation test, maybe they'll realize WHY extremely dense seating is a bad idea.
Not only that, but I see many electric bikes with non-existent or non-working lights. They have a battery BUILT IN -- no excuse for not having lights.
I actually like the idea of electric bikes, but lights at night should be enforced.
Cleaning supplies and paper products are usually a separate trip to the pharmacy, but that's more like once a month.
Our shopping lists are pretty similar, minus the soda and cereal. Without the paper products, soda, and cereal, those things fit in bike bags or a backpack.
Then again, car drivers whinge (or even chuck beer cans) when cyclists use the shoulder and ride past stopped traffic. They keep whinging when cyclists ride in the lane and they're forced to go around and pass. Drivers need to figure out what they want cyclists to do.
Even in cities that aren't particularly tall... e.g. Montreal or DC, cycling is often faster. Not everyone wants to live in social isolation in a home where they can't walk anywhere interesting and HAVE to use their wheeled sensory deprivation bubble to do anything outside of their home.
Is it a surprise that cops empathize more with good upstanding citizens who consume gasoline than with damned hippies and foreigner delivery people on bicycles? The system is set up to protect the strong against the weak.
With the size of most NYC fridges, you're buying for 3-4 days for a family, not a week. A week's worth of groceries for two people can fit in a pair of large bike bags, so why not a week for 3-4 people?
NYC cycling conditions depend on where you live and when you ride. Midtown during rush hour is a shitshow, other more residential parts of the city are fine, especially if they are near bike lanes or paths.
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Manners only matter when someone else is being harmed by lack of manners. The bikes splitting lanes are using space that wouldn't otherwise by used by cars -- they're not slowing cars down, just forming a second line for their own use.
You sound like you need some Xanax.
Not stopping IN THE PRESENCE OF CROSS TRAFFIC is creating the situation. This should be enforced. Doing an Idaho stop, slowing down, checking for traffic, should be fine. Dumbass.
Maybe the solution should be to require all cops to rotate through doing bike patrol for a month once every year or two. (a) it will help their physical fitness and (b) getting them out of their cars will force them to empathize with other road users.
So enforce rules if cyclists actually create a dangerous situation, don't fuck things up for everyone on a bike.
Nah, you just ride at normal-human speeds, not all out, in work clothes, and shower in the morning like everyone else...
Same data gives the CRJ series accident rate as 0.38.
Not exactly. Most accidents happen during takeoff or landing. Turboprop planes tend to fly shorter flight legs, therefore more takeoffs/landings per hour, even 4x as more. (This even takes slower speed into account).
Dash-8s work fine with jetways -- they need an adapter gangway that mates to the lower door height. But the same applies to small jet aircraft like the ERJ, CRJ, and BAE146. The reason jetways aren't used for many short-haul flights isn't due to aircraft type, but because smaller airports and regional terminals weren't set up for them.
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Exactly, so road space should be saved for those who really need it. Less abled people, deliveries, emergency vehicles/
Talk to me when you've flown on Spirit or Ryanair even for a 2-3 hour flight. The only good thing about Spirit is that you can usually get an upgrade to the front/1st-class seats for $75 or so.
Flights are cheaper today if you don't have exact requirements as to WHEN you want to fly. Also, I recall people in the 80s and 90s paying $50 to fly standby coast-to-coast.
If the cyclist dies, then there's often only one witness: the motorist. As far as the cop being interviewed, there are no hard numbers, just his opinion.
Yep, if only for safety. Small-pitch seats are much more difficult to evacuate in an emergency than seats with more legroom. There should be actual, live-person evacuation tests for any proposed seating configuration of an aircraft, not just for the manufacturer's original/intended seating plan.
Nope. If you can see that there aren't any cars within a block or two, there's no risk from the lack of all-around vision of a driver. This is just "kindergarten" rule-making -- wait your turn like a good child.
So use more efficient aircraft for medium and shorter haul flights. Dash-8 Q400 can have decent seat pitch and still use less fuel/resources than jet aircraft. Perfect for routes like New York-Toronto-Montreal where Porter Airlines uses it, without compromising service.
Yeah, yeah, ignorant people are scared of a "prop plane..."
Go back to live evacuation tests. Require that they use airline CEOs, upper management, and their families as the test subjects... If the plane can't be evac'ed in 90 seconds without injury, increase seat pitch and try again.
If a few airline upper managers get hurt during an evacuation test, maybe they'll realize WHY extremely dense seating is a bad idea.
Not only that, but I see many electric bikes with non-existent or non-working lights. They have a battery BUILT IN -- no excuse for not having lights. I actually like the idea of electric bikes, but lights at night should be enforced.
Perfectly legal to WALK your bike down the sidewalk past traffic, though.
Get out of your cage and onto your bike ... you might lose enough belly not to have to be an "Anonymous Coward..."
Cleaning supplies and paper products are usually a separate trip to the pharmacy, but that's more like once a month. Our shopping lists are pretty similar, minus the soda and cereal. Without the paper products, soda, and cereal, those things fit in bike bags or a backpack.
Then again, car drivers whinge (or even chuck beer cans) when cyclists use the shoulder and ride past stopped traffic. They keep whinging when cyclists ride in the lane and they're forced to go around and pass. Drivers need to figure out what they want cyclists to do.
Even in cities that aren't particularly tall ... e.g. Montreal or DC, cycling is often faster. Not everyone wants to live in social isolation in a home where they can't walk anywhere interesting and HAVE to use their wheeled sensory deprivation bubble to do anything outside of their home.
Is it a surprise that cops empathize more with good upstanding citizens who consume gasoline than with damned hippies and foreigner delivery people on bicycles? The system is set up to protect the strong against the weak.
With the size of most NYC fridges, you're buying for 3-4 days for a family, not a week. A week's worth of groceries for two people can fit in a pair of large bike bags, so why not a week for 3-4 people? NYC cycling conditions depend on where you live and when you ride. Midtown during rush hour is a shitshow, other more residential parts of the city are fine, especially if they are near bike lanes or paths.