NYC drivers be crazy

[UnnDunn]

Thread for my videos recorded in Brooklyn NYC. Starting with this woman; a strong independent Uber driver who don't need no red lights!

 

[kamkar]

And she is driving on a bicycle path too Thats really uncool.
They should move the parked cars out to where the cycle path are, and then have cyclist on the other side of the parked cars, sort of safe from traffic.

Also why the hell are the cycle path on the left, dont you guys drive on the right too, even if it is a one way street ?

But as least not as bat poo crazy as the cycle path in Washington put right in the middle of a major road

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[UnnDunn]

On single-lane, one-way streets, the bike lane is on the left so that it doesn't get in the way of buses that stop on the right.

 

[kamkar]

Yeah make sense with the layout you guys have, though i do seem to recall back in the day some Dane was to help NYC with cycle infrastructure.
Here as you often exit a bus onto a bicycle track or a small unload spot 1 - 2 feet wide between the curb and the bicycle path, it is natural to look before you exit the bus,,,, though pedestrians exiting a bus actually have the right of way over the cyclists if the bus unload to a cycle path, but if the small unload spot is there bus passengers actually have to yield to cyclists.

Same with school kids, they know not to cross the street before the bus have left, and then look both ways first,,,,,,,, though that did fail for a little girl last week so she did go flying.

So in this situation bus passengers must yield to cyclists, as they have a "island" to stand on.

Where as here where the bus unload to the cycle path the cyclists must yield.

And then the "rare" situation where there are no bicycle path and the bus unload to the sidewalk, so here you just walk out as cyclists will be "overtaking" the stopped bus meanwhile but on the outside.
In this case it is of course up to the cyclist to be vigilant as he pass the stopped bus, and it is also recommended to wait at the back of the bus for it to get going again.

The preferred way here is to have the cycle path to the side alongside the sidewalk, elevated from the road preferably with a 4" tall curb, and if there is parking for cars they will be to the left and so sort of act as a shield for cyclists and pedestrians.

And no it is actually rare someone open a door in front of a cyclist, or on the other side in front of a passing car, you must always be vigilant exiting a car.

The first true bicycle path was made here in 1892, today you will find 6500 miles of true bicycle path in Danmark ( just marked with a white line are not really a cycle path here, though we also have that )
A true cycle path are raised a little over the road and protected by a curb, or it can be distanced a little from the road with say a 3-4 feet wide strip of grass ( or more in rural places )