Picture ain’t mine but in the last decade in my country, there’s more and more motorcycles than ever before, mostly because they’re cheap and plentiful, and while they supposedly level the playing field in terms of private vehicle ownership, they also affect other people like cyclists.

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    18 days ago

    A small percentage of humans are knobs, so if you split into drivers, bikers, cyclists and pedestrians, then within each one there are knobs. I regularly see all go through red lights, go the wrong way up a road, don’t give way etc.

    The impact of these are different though. Drivers kill, and can kill other drivers and anyone else on the road. Motorcycles can kill cyclists and pedestrians but are more likely to be killed themselves by drivers. Cyclists can hurt and even kill pedestrians (although lower chance), and can be killed by drivers and bikers. Pedestrians are just exposed as fuck.

    We should design the roads to reflect that - pedestrians first, [transit maybe here?] cyclists, bikers, then drivers.

    I think bikers should be factored in and in some cases fuckcars includes them as victims of car brained culture (and acknowledge they are smaller, less harmful up the environment etc) and in some cases say fuckbikes (they can kill you and do emit green house gases).