At least cities like Chicago are adding lots of bike lanes these days....

Chicago has great bike lines! But many rude bicyclists, in my experience. You need to call out what you're doing, like saying "on your left" when you're passing so that your fellow cyclists know what you're going to do!!

Baltimore is getting more and more bike friendly. It has a looooong way to go but it's definitely headed in the right direction.

I've had bicyclists on the sidewalk swear at me for making a right turn when they're in full pedal and apparently have no intention of stopping.

Oh yes. I cannot tell you the last time I saw a bicyclist obey a stop sign or red light if there was no oncoming traffic. My route to work used to include a right turn with a very short light into a busy crosswalk, often used by bicyclists. The crosswalk direction was at the bottom of a small hill, so bicyclists liked to cruise down the hill and into the intersection. I was making the turn on a green light and a bicyclist who was cruising down the sidewalk about 50 feet back blew an air horn at me. I made the turn, forcing him to stop. When I was at the stoplight he actually had the nerve to come up to my car and start yelling at me. I rolled down my window and said "when you are IN the crosswalk I will yield to you, but I will be damned if I'm going to stop for when you're not even at the curb!"

We're not allowed to ride on sidewalks here except on campus, but of course people do. My favorite are the people who ride at night without a helmet wearing dark clothes and headphones.

I've had bicyclists on the sidewalk swear at me for making a right turn when they're in full pedal and apparently have no intention of stopping.

I've been cut off and nearly clipped more times than I can count. It happened at least once a day when I biked to work, which was only a two mile ride.

We have bike lanes and sidewalks in many sections of my town. When I'm biking I often have to go around people walking and jogging in the bike lane. And when I'm walking or jogging, I frequently have to dodge bikers on the sidewalk. We have carefully delineated spaces for each, people! They're marked with words and icons. If you don't like jogging on concrete then write to your alderman about upgrading the sidewalk, but get the hell out of my way while you do it. And bikers, when there's a perfectly good bike lane there stay the hell off the sidewalk.

Honestly, people.

Happy Birthday, Cass!!!

Cyclists not riding on sidewalks makes me nuts

Riding on sidewalks or not riding on sidewalks. It pisses me off when they do ride on the sidewalk, for the most part.

It pisses me off when they do ride on the sidewalk, for the most part.

Sorry, that's what I meant! They've got "walk" right in the word, not "ride!"

Random pet peeve - people who open a door and don't check to see if anyone's behind them and needs it held. RUDE.

And another - we just got a new voicemail system and now there aren't "new" messages, there are "unread" messages. WTFF?

Happy birthday, Cass!

Really you need to consider yourself to be part of traffic and take your lane. Unfortunately too many drivers are ignorant of the fact that bicyclists have the right to do this.

This is the thing. And here I go sounding like my grandmother but really, when I was young, we were taught that a bicycle is a vehicle and must adhere to the appropriate laws and behaviors.

I want to sue for breach of the social contract.

I swear, we are all going to hell in a flaming handbasket...but then, Nature willl win, so shrug.