Human traffic-ing

[jonesiexxx]

Why does city traffic turn perfectly ordinary people into murdering, suicidal IQ-deficients?

1. Yesterday, a cyclist came thisclose to running me over while I crossed an intersection. I was crossing by the green light. He was riding through a red light. (I, of course, expressed my rage disapproval both orally and through digital gesticulation.

Comments

[petzipellepingo]

Maybe it's just because I'm old but it seems to me that people are getting dumber - significantly dumber.

[jonesiexxx]

Agreed. Although I'm old too, so this could be ageism on our parts. :D

[avrelia]

These are the cases you can't help but wish people got hit - because they did everything to get hit.

People say a lot about NYC drivers, but cyclist there are way worse. I can't forget an idiot delivering pizza who drove his bike in the opposite direction from all the traffic in that line and almost directly in the bus - and didn't collide with the bus (I was in the bus and watching with horrified fascination the whole thing) by sheer chance. The bus driver exhausted his (or her - don't remember) expletive vocabulary.

[jonesiexxx]

Bicycle riders are a real menace. Not all of them. But the ones who beak the rules do it so dangerously. I don't care that they don't seem to care if they live or die. But I care about other people - pedestrians and drivers - they get into accidents along the way.

[herself_nyc]

You are far too judgmental to be Canadian.

[jonesiexxx]

LOL

I know! I think I am the product of a cross-border switched at birth glitch.

[keswindhover]

Aww, they could have just a few little tyre marks on his nice suit....

[jonesiexxx]

You managed that intersection and you're from South Wrongway Britlandia!

You'd hink the natives could work it out.