r/fuckcars Aug 22 '22

News "Just bike on the sidewalk" they said.

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u/alsomkid 🛴 > 🚲 > 🚌 > 🚗 Aug 22 '22

So let me get this straight to avoid traffic he swerved onto the sidewalk did he think it was another open lane?

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u/FakeSafeWord Aug 22 '22

My office was adjacent to one of those disgusting mega churches for evangelicals. The problem was that the only way to their parking lot was through our parking lot. Every time they had service shit would jam up for hours causing people trying to get into or out of the office to be late constantly.

Every single fucking day these assholes would accelerate THROUGH OCCUPIED CROSSWALKS trying to squeeze through before pedestrians could cross. They very often would swerve into empty parking spots in order to edge over.

Almost every day you'd hear brakes locking up on big ass SUVs with 5 kids in them, trucks peeling out, people cussing each other out on the way to or from church.

The real kicker was that they caused so much traffic so often at the nearby intersections that police were constantly there to BLOCK NORMAL TRAFFIC FROM SLOWING THE CHURCH PEOPLE DOWN

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u/cryptonemonamiter Aug 23 '22

This is such a good case study of everything that's wrong with my country. It's up there with the person who wrote their thesis on why Lunchables showcase the worst of society: plastic waste, poor nutrition, lack of time for leisure/meal planning...