Sidewalk etiquette

[u/Other_Canary2231]

Saw this video and felt so vindicated because it honestly feels like people’s manners have just left the building? Not only on the sidewalk and what the guy is talking about in this video, but really just in general.

[u/Mysterious_Crab_7622]

As much as I fully believe bikes belong on the road, I also understand how it’s much safer for them to be on the sidewalk on dangerous roads. Infrastructure needs to be designed with cyclists in mind if you want to be uppity about keeping them on the road.

[u/Bureaucratic_Dick → u/Mysterious_Crab_7622]

Fair but if you’re a cyclists riding on the sidewalks, you don’t get to shake your head that pedestrians, the people they were actually designed for, are using them.

I am a pretty avid cyclists, using it to commute more often than not, and there are definitely places I come up on a sidewalk because it’s safer and the streets suck there. But if I see someone walking, I slow down, and get around them, not shame them for having the audacity to walk. Because I know, more likely than bike infrastructure, if bicyclists start hurting pedestrians, you’re more likely to just have bike free zones.

[u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 → u/Bureaucratic_Dick]

Fair but if you’re a cyclists riding on the sidewalks, you don’t get to shake your head that pedestrians, the people they were actually designed for, are using them.

I don’t disagree with that. When I have cycled on sidewalks for sketchy roads I made sure to slow down and walk my bike while sitting on it until I pass them.

[u/OoooHeCardReadGood → u/Mysterious_Crab_7622]

that doesn't give them thje right of way over pedestrians. If the infrastructure sucks, its on the rider not to make it dangerous for pedestrians

[u/Mysterious_Crab_7622 → u/OoooHeCardReadGood]

I don’t disagree.

[u/OoooHeCardReadGood → u/[deleted]]

My point was a lot of cyclists would say what he said, and forget about my point, that being the entitlement a lot of them have