You are correct. We ride to show the city how useless painted bike lanes are and how important is to install real infrastructure. But there is no political will here to make those life-saving changes. So in the short term, we also riding to show the city that enforcement is desperately needed until protected bike lanes are built.
Yes. Have little kerbs between road and cycle lane. Soon put a stop to it. The law states cyclist cannot use pavements unless divided into cycle and pedestrian lane. Motorists don't like cyclists being on the road. Government builds cycle lanes to protect all road users and motorists decide they can park in them 🙄 I had to ride in the middle of very fast traffic because 3 cars were parked in a line blocking the cycle lane and the pavement. Some woman hurled threats and her husband came bouncing out of his garden when I complained. He soon went back in again after he saw I took pictures. I will stay I cycle lanes, motorists stay on roads. You cannot park or block a cycle lane or a cycle filter box. Stay behind the line even if the light is green if there is a jam at the junction. Otherwise you block cyclists from safely navigating and you also block other traffic trying to cross the junction. Accident waiting to happen.
Every time a motorists screams at me to use the bike lane, I'll just give them a piece of paper with the link of this video on it. This is my argument to the small minority of motorists who moan at us to use them, when they block 'em!
As a fellow SF cyclist, I must say that you guys are doing the lord's work here. If I tried to do something like this I'd just end up shouting at everyone like a madman and getting the cops called on me.
The best way to do it is just keep pedaling and ram straight into em claiming you didn't see them. They won't do it after several broken Windows and smashed bumpers.
Unfortunately we would get arrested and sued for vandalism and destruction of property, and possibly assaulted by the driver first. Americans are very sensitive about their private property and the police have a documented bias against cyclists here. But gladly taking other suggestions for things we can do to encourage these drivers to get out of the bike lane quickly!
One man's property does not compare with the danger and the possibility the cyclist getting hit by a car on the road, because the bike lane is full of cars
I picked up a few Airhorns a while ago after dealing with a guy who refused to get out of the bike lane. I just blast the hell out of it now and point till people move. Also got parking enforcement on speed-dial.
0:33 In Belgium that's 3 separate fines if a police officer really wants to get a message through. One for parking in the wrong place, one for endangering weak road users, and one for wrongful use of the 4 emergency blinker lights. But you bet if a police car or bike passed these people here, they'd all get at least a severe warning, And at worst a serious fine and maybe even a revoked licence for repeat offenders. The penalty for parking in a bike lane here is 110 to 1375 euro and a possible revoked licence for 5 days to 8 YEARS. You bet this phenomenon has gotten extremely rare here...
PLEASE STOP BANGING ON THAT CAN. I don't know if you are trying to annoy the drivers or get everyone else's attention. But either way, you are making yourself look like a fool and make your cause look dumb. The Asian girl is handling it perfectly. Stop it with the cans!
We hear you. Could you please suggest some ideas for other ways to encourage the drivers to leave the bike lane? When we say "leave the bike or we will ____" what do we say and what do we do? We can use stickers because we would get arrested and sued for vandalism and destruction of property.
+Cars Out of Bike Lanes SF I do the same thing you guys do down here in LA. I don't really know if I'm making a difference by getting telling individual drivers to get out of the bike lane. Most of the bike lanes I ride on are in fairly progressive jurisdictions (i.e. Santa Monica, UCLA). So I've had good experiences with the PD who will come out and speak with the driver. I don't know how it is in SF, but I would try to establish a contact with your local PD (LAPD had bike liaisons who deal with anything bike related). That might be more effective than talking to individual drivers. I'm sure some of these drivers are apologetic and learned their lesson, but most probably don't really give a crap. Which is why I think only getting law enforcement involved would result in progress. By the way, I read a while back that SF transit busses have cameras that can issue parking citations as the busses drive by. Is that true? Maybe that's one way to get this enforced.
Our PD, unfortunately, has a well-documented anti-cyclist bias, and they are generally so busy on other matters that they do not often respond to calls for parking enforcement (which is the category this falls into). Our Parking Enforcement does take calls, but it takes them 20+ minutes to arrive and by that time the offenders are long gone. That's why were taking matters into our own hands, and we hope that posting the videos publicly can reach a larger number of people and draw attention to the issue until changes are made. We are slowly making our way and getting the attention of the city and law enforcement. Yes- MUNI buses do have TOLE cameras, but so far their use is limited to people driving in transit-only lanes and parking in bus stops I believe. But I do know someone who has spoken with SFMTA about possibly expanding the use of those cameras to include other violations like parking in bike lanes. Thanks for the comments!
That's a bummer. I thought SF is fairly progressive when it comes to cycling. I wonder if you can get your local TV stations to do a segment on this. Namely Stanley Roberts who does the "People behaving badly" segment. He has a pretty big following (including myself). Regardless, you guys should approach the violators in a calm, civil manner. Don't make a scene or escalate the situation (who knows if someone is going to have a weapon). If you encounter someone receptive, then they'll listen to you. But if you encounter someone selfish, I doubt they care to start with. So making a scene about it isn't really going to help the cause. I'm also a League of American Bicyclist certified instructor. When I teach Traffic Skills classes, I tell people that it's good to be "right", but you don't want to be "dead right". When you guys are hurt, it doesn't do anyone any good. I guess I'm just trying to look out for fellow cyclists.
Appreciated. Stanley Roberts doesn't always have cyclists' best interests at heart. But he has reposted our videos before. Our top priority is approaching people in a calm manner and being extremely polite. We also travel in a group and operate in very public places to try and be as safe as possible. We are tired of people getting hurt and felt like there is no choice but to take matters into our own hands.
A real cycling lane is inaccessible to selfish motorists. Painting the gutter on a road and calling it a cycle lane is for political reasons. Belgium and the Netherlands have proper safe cycling lanes. They use kerbs to protect cyclists.
Completely right. That's part of the problem we're trying to show with these videos. Two cyclists were killed in SF yesterday on streets where a protected bike lane or protected intersection could have saved their lives.
you're only partially right for we do still have cycle lanes that are not segregated from the road, most of those are to be found in city/village centers.... greetings from Alkmaar, the Netherlands. ride safe!
bipedalame I'm not entirely sure that it's fair to say that it's for political reasons, though I suppose one could. I look at many of these bike lane related videos and see city streets (sidewalks included) that are simply too narrow to accommodate a properly isolated bike lane. About the best I could see being done might be what I think is called floating parking spots and putting the bike lane between the parking spots and the sidewalk. But even those can be abused by people who park their cars too much to the right, or trucks or cars who insist on using the bike lanes as loading zones. Or for that matter, I've seen videos (often NYC related ones) where pedestrians insist on walking in the bike lanes. The reality is that most of these cities' streets/sidewalks were never designed to be wide enough to properly accommodate normal vehicular traffic lanes, parking, and bike lanes, as well as foot traffic.
In my city it drives me nuts because the bike lane is to the right of dozens of parking spaces, so on one side of the bike lane is a sidewalk and on the other is tons of parking and people STILL park in the bike lane with empty parking.
Great to see how polite most people were when confronted about parking in the bike lane. I'm from London, England, and I estimate if you did that here about 40% of people would be verbally aggressive, around 10% could get physically violent.
It's San Francisco...most people I've encountered there are very calm and social. A few aggressive NY/LA types...but probably an even nicer city compared to Seattle. I want to cycle SF again!
Bicycle is my only transportation, but this makes me want to buy a car and drive in the bike lane just to piss off these authoritative annoying virtue signaling bike lane nazis.
If I decided to have lunch in the middle of the road, would you consider the drivers that complained and honked at me for doing so "virtue signaling car lane nazis"?
When people tell me theyknow it is illegal to park in a bike lane but admit doing anyway, I tell them that I know damaging other peoples property is illgal, then I kick their door with my bike shoe and ride off, wonder if they see the humour in that?
Correction, this is why these types of bike lanes are BS. Physically seperated bike lanes work very well, they actually make traffic move better altogether as bikes are no longer slowing cars down and people will start to use a bike more giving less congestion. This is what is typically observed.
yes separated bike lanes work. Or even just painting share arrows all over town works. But making a bike only lane with no barriers is crazy. It also causes a crazy number of Right Hooks harming cyclist.
you know they put it in "door zone" on purpose. City bike lanes are not for cyclist. It is so cities can cut down on motor vehicle accidents. but look like the good guy in the public eye.
This highlights one of the many problems with riding at the edge of the road, including bike lanes. I would probably avoid these bike lanes for several reasons. They are putting you in danger by being in a door zone as well as posing a pull-out risk from parked motor vehicles. This street is the wrong kind of street to have bike lanes on it.
Cars Out of Bike Lanes SF I can't imagine a design that would work for this environment. There are too many businesses, driveways, pedestrians moving about, on-street parking etc, It also appears to be a lower speed street. Just using the general travel lane would be the safest bet here.
@@myfriendsridesafe2395 Late reply, sorry: Using the general travel lane is the best way to ensure that small children and your grandma will never be able to cycle around town safely. Without going into detail: Swith the car parking/loading zones with the cycle lane. (side walk - bike lane - parking - road, in that order) Best to have a narrow walking space (the width of a car door) between the parking and cycle lane and if needed use some space from the road to realise it.
The first time I had an accident while in SF wasn't from cars parking in bike lane. It was the train track, my tires got caught in one and I flew 50 ft.
Thank you for helping to clear the bike lanes! Also, I was told by Santa Monica PD that there is 'no violation' to parking in a bike lane. Hard to believe, but you can cite them for distance from the curb, double parking, or any other offense that fits. To everyone who reads this, please subscribe to my channel (and this one) and share these videos to support the cause!
If I lived in San Francisco, my car would stay in the garage most of the time. It's difficult to ride a bicycle there, but it's even more difficult to drive. There's just no point. I'd probably also own many more bikes, because a Douze makes a great grocery getter.
Bad Drivers of Minneapolis hmm... I will also accept I'm from the Twin Cities, and I'm from Minnesota. Being that I'm from Minneapolis I know the proper way to say that, because I have lived in Minnesota all my life. Plus being that I'm from Minneapolis, I don't understand why you WOULDN'T want to let everyone know where your from... Speaking of from... Have I told you yet I'm from Minneapolis?... If not Im from Minneapolis! :)
The problem also is that you have parking after bikeline and not the other way around, it doesnt creat a protected nikelane in this way, is just extra conflict.
***** if it is a driver that i've come across doing these irresponsable things on a daily basis, he/she won't be so lucky... i ride on heavy, OLD bicycles (i currently own 7 gazelle's built between 1938 and 1968), the brakes are in tiptop shape but i'm not always prepared to use them. i once "wrecked" the door off a bmw from a lady who swung her door open at me 3 times in less than 2 weeks, i had warned her for it. i had the choice between colliding with that door or getting in front off a bus with no room to spare... she insisted on calling the police and for that she got a huge fine and had to pay for all the damages. the netherlands, where i live, has laws to protect cyclists from moronic motorists... ;-)
you're my heroes! I watch all your episodes and feel so much enlightened when you intimidate those ruthless monsters and chase them away from your precious bike lane. you're like batman of gotham. you're like protector angels of all bikers. the community owes you so much because of making this world a better place to live in... ! thank you! thank you! thank you! I want to hug you in tears of happiness.
You realize that the US is one of the deadliest places in the world for cyclists? Part of that is that the infrastructure that cyclists have as it is is already pretty shitty to nonexistent, and part of that is that dickheads like this force bikes to join with high speed motor traffic which, if you haven't gotten the memo by now, is lethal for cyclists. Good job for making fun of dead cyclists. Your mom must be so proud.
in my country some bike lanes are behind the sidewalk but when the wanna build a bike lane and they dont have space they compromise one lane and put bike lane behind the parking
Problem is that it does not matter, people are always going to break some rules like these. Drive against traffic for just the 1 street, park in a no parking allowed zone, Drive to fast, etc etc etc. People are frustrated as they cannot find the place and think "lets break the rule just this time". People have trouble finding parking spot, fuck just this time I will put it on the bike lane and quickly come back. No matter how much trouble you make, you cannot compete with the ease to break the rule just this one time. And yes I think the majority will not be frequent offenders. Better facilities are required.
With the advent of autonomous vehicles you will not need to be burdened with the ownership of a car or a lack of space in the future, wonderful science
I am surprised that there are no traffic enforcement on bikes issuing citations. That would really boost awareness as well as some revenue for the effort, yo...
A valve stem remover would fix the problem. Takes a few seconds and causes no damage to the vehicle. You could easily hit the rear passenger tire before the driver cleared the front seat.
Even though i like idea of stopxam i cant tell that i agree 100% with this...firstly imo theese bike lanes are not very clevery placed as they should be next to the sidewalk because cars are for example only stopping for a while and then going back to traffic (not minding the fact that actual trend is to make as mamy bike lanes as possible no matter if they are needed or clevery placed )and secondly i dont think that changing lane (because of obstacle - like car ) is big deal...in the end bikes are part of traffic ,right ? ;) (nope im not from us) (Yes i have bike)
You're right that the bike lanes are poorly placed. So much so that in many cases they can actually be more dangerous than having no bike lane at all. But there are many cyclists who don't have the skill level to bike with traffic, and when they are using a bike lane and forced out of it into traffic, it can be very dangerous. It is also dangerous because cars pulling into the bike lanes can hit cyclists (as in our previous video, see here: ua-cam.com/video/JJKg2zWV8nU/v-deo.htmlm48s). So until the city builds safer, protected bike lanes or the police enforce traffic laws which make it illegal to block bike lanes, we will ride to get cars out the bike lane.
Have you guys ever watched the "stop a douchebag" campaign? They have stickers they plaster on cars that pull stuff like this. But I like that you guys just hand out paper, to protect yourself as well. I really appreciated the guy's acknowledgement that he did something wrong. edit: thank you for what you're doing. I hope some day the police do this instead like they should be
Awesome video and awesome work. I know most of us WANT to see you put stickers on cars, a la Stop A Douchebag, but this is NOT Russia and, as you have mentioned in other responses, Americans and American law enforcement do not react well when their personal property is damaged (or just touched). Although most of us appreciate the urge to go ballistic on these incredibly selfish people who park in bike lanes, I think you are giving yourselves--and all cyclists--good names by acting calm, polite, and doing exactly what you are doing. Screaming, fighting, and flying off the handle--while making you/us feel good for a few minutes--would ultimately be a huge disservice to your own movement. I'm from Los Angeles so I am not too familiar with the San Francisco LEO culture/community, but have you ever considered alerting local LEO that you will be "patrolling" on a certain day/time and to have an officer number, ready to call, to ticket these goons? It would seem to be a mutually beneficial collaboration: the police generate revenue for the city (which a cynical person might say is their only/true job) and you win by making the bike lane safer. In any event, KUDOS TO YOU, and please keep up your peaceful activities. While I enjoy other (international) groups that do similar work albeit much more aggressive/confrontational, I think you have the high ground through how you conduct yourselves and it is entirely appropriate behavior..
Thank you for the comment! Our police here tend to have an anti-cyclist bias, and they often refuse to enforce the law on parked (motionless) vehicles, saying that's the responsibility of Parking Enforcement (non-police) officers. You can see us calling parking enforcement in the video, but they take 20-30 minutes to arrive, so the violators are long gone by then. Also, parking enforcement focuses the vast majority of their time on street sweeping and parking permits violations, not violations that actually put people's safety at risk. But I hope that we can make a name for ourselves and earn a reputation that would allow us to request an enforcement escort one day to actually ticket everyone that we encounter. Knowing this city, that seems unlikely to actually happen, but we can dream.
I don't have it in me to tell people how to live their lives when riding my bike. Not worth my time. I will always just go around the damn car and you, and make sure that I look both ways so as to not get hit and hold up the flow of traffic behind me. My hometown, San Francisco, has become more violent In the last 2 years that you can never know who's liable to just snap and potentially hurt you for telling them to move their car. Just sayin'! Just let people be and stop obstructing my bike lane, whether you're in a car or not. Just go around, you'll get there. Ride safe!
should have a 1000 cyclist with hornet horns sounding them the same time then I think thy get the message are just 1 train horn connected to a E bike trailer :)
I hate them standing in bike lanes as well. But face it, if there is no bike lane, cars can just stop anywhere for loading, just like in the old days. Now we have bike lane with only painting but no barrier, so cars would still interpret that as a space for standing. Unless tickets are enforced like speeding or running the red, drivers won't take it seriously.
Think putting a physical barrier would stop this but it is annoying when car drivers say to use the bike lane, then they block it.. they need to get finned
La responsabilidad es de la policía, que debería velar por que los conductores de los coches respeten el carril bici y obviamente no lo hacen. Es triste que unos ciudadanos (ciclistas) tengan que hacer el trabajo enfrentándose a los infractores, arriesgándose a tener discusiones con los mismos. Si los coches estuvieran en medio de la calzada, seguramente la policía actuaría de una manera diferente. Es una discriminación en toda regla.
While it is great what you're doing, I do have to wonder what brainlets thought the horizontal stripes on the bike lane were a good idea. They basically whisper "PARK HERE". Two more parts of the equation are missing: 1) actual protected bike lanes that are not a painted line on the road between high speed traffic and the door zone of parked cars, and 2) actual enforcement so that people learn to respect the painted bike gutters that really can't be replaced by proper bike infrastructure. Keep up the good job though.
one time me and my friend both got hit by a car that was in the bike lane. we weren't hurt but our bikes sure were. We were both only 11 at the time so.....
Man, I’m a cyclist but this just seems overkill. It makes cyclists seem entitled and like the owners of the road. I understand the drivers situation as it may be impossible or not worth the time to find a parking spot only to buy like a bag of chips at a store or something.
Being fat, lazy, and selfish are not valid excuses to park in a cycle-lane. Car-drivers complain about Cyclists being on the road, but then they block the designated bicycle lane.
What really gets me going is when they do this right next to an empty parking space (which they then block, as well)
That is maddening, but more likely, the empty space you see now wasn't empty when the offender chose to park in the bike lane.
I predict that the problem will persist until you have your bike lanes raised.
Best regards from Denmark!
You are correct. We ride to show the city how useless painted bike lanes are and how important is to install real infrastructure. But there is no political will here to make those life-saving changes. So in the short term, we also riding to show the city that enforcement is desperately needed until protected bike lanes are built.
Yes. Have little kerbs between road and cycle lane. Soon put a stop to it. The law states cyclist cannot use pavements unless divided into cycle and pedestrian lane. Motorists don't like cyclists being on the road. Government builds cycle lanes to protect all road users and motorists decide they can park in them 🙄
I had to ride in the middle of very fast traffic because 3 cars were parked in a line blocking the cycle lane and the pavement. Some woman hurled threats and her husband came bouncing out of his garden when I complained. He soon went back in again after he saw I took pictures. I will stay I cycle lanes, motorists stay on roads. You cannot park or block a cycle lane or a cycle filter box. Stay behind the line even if the light is green if there is a jam at the junction. Otherwise you block cyclists from safely navigating and you also block other traffic trying to cross the junction. Accident waiting to happen.
I am amaze how polite you were to these people. Shame it looks like most people were not even sorry and will do it again in the near future.
Every time a motorists screams at me to use the bike lane, I'll just give them a piece of paper with the link of this video on it.
This is my argument to the small minority of motorists who moan at us to use them, when they block 'em!
As a fellow SF cyclist, I must say that you guys are doing the lord's work here. If I tried to do something like this I'd just end up shouting at everyone like a madman and getting the cops called on me.
The best way to do it is just keep pedaling and ram straight into em claiming you didn't see them. They won't do it after several broken Windows and smashed bumpers.
3:42 guy totally redeemed himself by admitting it was selfish.
The only thing he did was say what he thought the cyclists wanted to hear. it was NOT sincere. No redemption.
You're probably right
And it wasn't enough for for the little sjw. She just kept pressing and pressing and pressing! She was nothing but a little b****!
@@Crispy983 yep. We don't care about your shitty bike lanes.
@@fudgedog123 Who's we? A**holes?
YOu should get stickers, much like "stop a douchebag" =)
Unfortunately we would get arrested and sued for vandalism and destruction of property, and possibly assaulted by the driver first. Americans are very sensitive about their private property and the police have a documented bias against cyclists here.
But gladly taking other suggestions for things we can do to encourage these drivers to get out of the bike lane quickly!
In US you can get sued for anything really.
One man's property does not compare with the danger and the possibility the cyclist getting hit by a car on the road, because the bike lane is full of cars
Cars Out of Bike Lanes SF Air horn?
Bah! I was just about to comment the same thing. xD
I picked up a few Airhorns a while ago after dealing with a guy who refused to get out of the bike lane. I just blast the hell out of it now and point till people move. Also got parking enforcement on speed-dial.
The siren is way more effective than a bell, horn, or banging a tin can. Get more of those. 👍
Ojisan642 omg throw the can away!!!! That would get on everyone's nerves and take away what their trying to achieve.
You guys need the stickers Stop A Douchebag uses (translated to English obviously).
The stickers make for a good reminder but how about cleaning the windshield with some WD-40?
I just now found this video, it's so awesome. It's like the Stop a Douchebag movement, but without stickers! Very courageous, great work!
0:33 In Belgium that's 3 separate fines if a police officer really wants to get a message through. One for parking in the wrong place, one for endangering weak road users, and one for wrongful use of the 4 emergency blinker lights.
But you bet if a police car or bike passed these people here, they'd all get at least a severe warning, And at worst a serious fine and maybe even a revoked licence for repeat offenders. The penalty for parking in a bike lane here is 110 to 1375 euro and a possible revoked licence for 5 days to 8 YEARS.
You bet this phenomenon has gotten extremely rare here...
PLEASE STOP BANGING ON THAT CAN. I don't know if you are trying to annoy the drivers or get everyone else's attention. But either way, you are making yourself look like a fool and make your cause look dumb. The Asian girl is handling it perfectly. Stop it with the cans!
We hear you. Could you please suggest some ideas for other ways to encourage the drivers to leave the bike lane? When we say "leave the bike or we will ____" what do we say and what do we do? We can use stickers because we would get arrested and sued for vandalism and destruction of property.
+Cars Out of Bike Lanes SF I do the same thing you guys do down here in LA. I don't really know if I'm making a difference by getting telling individual drivers to get out of the bike lane. Most of the bike lanes I ride on are in fairly progressive jurisdictions (i.e. Santa Monica, UCLA). So I've had good experiences with the PD who will come out and speak with the driver. I don't know how it is in SF, but I would try to establish a contact with your local PD (LAPD had bike liaisons who deal with anything bike related). That might be more effective than talking to individual drivers.
I'm sure some of these drivers are apologetic and learned their lesson, but most probably don't really give a crap. Which is why I think only getting law enforcement involved would result in progress.
By the way, I read a while back that SF transit busses have cameras that can issue parking citations as the busses drive by. Is that true? Maybe that's one way to get this enforced.
Our PD, unfortunately, has a well-documented anti-cyclist bias, and they are generally so busy on other matters that they do not often respond to calls for parking enforcement (which is the category this falls into). Our Parking Enforcement does take calls, but it takes them 20+ minutes to arrive and by that time the offenders are long gone.
That's why were taking matters into our own hands, and we hope that posting the videos publicly can reach a larger number of people and draw attention to the issue until changes are made. We are slowly making our way and getting the attention of the city and law enforcement.
Yes- MUNI buses do have TOLE cameras, but so far their use is limited to people driving in transit-only lanes and parking in bus stops I believe. But I do know someone who has spoken with SFMTA about possibly expanding the use of those cameras to include other violations like parking in bike lanes.
Thanks for the comments!
That's a bummer. I thought SF is fairly progressive when it comes to cycling. I wonder if you can get your local TV stations to do a segment on this. Namely Stanley Roberts who does the "People behaving badly" segment. He has a pretty big following (including myself).
Regardless, you guys should approach the violators in a calm, civil manner. Don't make a scene or escalate the situation (who knows if someone is going to have a weapon). If you encounter someone receptive, then they'll listen to you. But if you encounter someone selfish, I doubt they care to start with. So making a scene about it isn't really going to help the cause.
I'm also a League of American Bicyclist certified instructor. When I teach Traffic Skills classes, I tell people that it's good to be "right", but you don't want to be "dead right". When you guys are hurt, it doesn't do anyone any good. I guess I'm just trying to look out for fellow cyclists.
Appreciated. Stanley Roberts doesn't always have cyclists' best interests at heart. But he has reposted our videos before.
Our top priority is approaching people in a calm manner and being extremely polite. We also travel in a group and operate in very public places to try and be as safe as possible.
We are tired of people getting hurt and felt like there is no choice but to take matters into our own hands.
A real cycling lane is inaccessible to selfish motorists. Painting the gutter on a road and calling it a cycle lane is for political reasons. Belgium and the Netherlands have proper safe cycling lanes. They use kerbs to protect cyclists.
I'm inclined to agree with you on the cycle lane issue
Completely right. That's part of the problem we're trying to show with these videos. Two cyclists were killed in SF yesterday on streets where a protected bike lane or protected intersection could have saved their lives.
you're only partially right for we do still have cycle lanes that are not segregated from the road, most of those are to be found in city/village centers....
greetings from Alkmaar, the Netherlands. ride safe!
bipedalame I'm not entirely sure that it's fair to say that it's for political reasons, though I suppose one could. I look at many of these bike lane related videos and see city streets (sidewalks included) that are simply too narrow to accommodate a properly isolated bike lane. About the best I could see being done might be what I think is called floating parking spots and putting the bike lane between the parking spots and the sidewalk. But even those can be abused by people who park their cars too much to the right, or trucks or cars who insist on using the bike lanes as loading zones. Or for that matter, I've seen videos (often NYC related ones) where pedestrians insist on walking in the bike lanes.
The reality is that most of these cities' streets/sidewalks were never designed to be wide enough to properly accommodate normal vehicular traffic lanes, parking, and bike lanes, as well as foot traffic.
LMAO!!! We have curbs .... Na na na boo booo!
At least that last guy with the bag was honest
Get Stanley Robert on your side, he probably will get cops to you quicker. After all, these guys are people behaving badly.
lmao you guys have a valid point but when she started smacking that cowbell looking thing I died lol lost all sense of credibility in that moment
In my city it drives me nuts because the bike lane is to the right of dozens of parking spaces, so on one side of the bike lane is a sidewalk and on the other is tons of parking and people STILL park in the bike lane with empty parking.
Great to see how polite most people were when confronted about parking in the bike lane. I'm from London, England, and I estimate if you did that here about 40% of people would be verbally aggressive, around 10% could get physically violent.
I don't think if the did it in Phoenix someone would pull out a gun
It's San Francisco...most people I've encountered there are very calm and social. A few aggressive NY/LA types...but probably an even nicer city compared to Seattle. I want to cycle SF again!
Keep you d lock with you and have a chain ready .
Bicycle is my only transportation, but this makes me want to buy a car and drive in the bike lane just to piss off these authoritative annoying virtue signaling bike lane nazis.
If I decided to have lunch in the middle of the road, would you consider the drivers that complained and honked at me for doing so "virtue signaling car lane nazis"?
Bust out the rear window, they cost like 3 - 5 times as much as front to replace
When people tell me theyknow it is illegal to park in a bike lane but admit doing anyway, I tell them that I know damaging other peoples property is illgal, then I kick their door with my bike shoe and ride off, wonder if they see the humour in that?
this is why bike lanes are BS
Correction, this is why these types of bike lanes are BS.
Physically seperated bike lanes work very well, they actually make traffic move better altogether as bikes are no longer slowing cars down and people will start to use a bike more giving less congestion.
This is what is typically observed.
yes separated bike lanes work. Or even just painting share arrows all over town works. But making a bike only lane with no barriers is crazy. It also causes a crazy number of Right Hooks harming cyclist.
and it's in the doorzone
you know they put it in "door zone" on purpose. City bike lanes are not for cyclist. It is so cities can cut down on motor vehicle accidents. but look like the good guy in the public eye.
This highlights one of the many problems with riding at the edge of the road, including bike lanes. I would probably avoid these bike lanes for several reasons. They are putting you in danger by being in a door zone as well as posing a pull-out risk from parked motor vehicles. This street is the wrong kind of street to have bike lanes on it.
It could be the right street for bike lanes, if only the bike lanes were designed correctly. Which, as you point on, they are not.
Cars Out of Bike Lanes SF
I can't imagine a design that would work for this environment. There are too many businesses, driveways, pedestrians moving about, on-street parking etc, It also appears to be a lower speed street. Just using the general travel lane would be the safest bet here.
@@myfriendsridesafe2395 Late reply, sorry:
Using the general travel lane is the best way to ensure that small children and your grandma will never be able to cycle around town safely.
Without going into detail: Swith the car parking/loading zones with the cycle lane.
(side walk - bike lane - parking - road, in that order)
Best to have a narrow walking space (the width of a car door) between the parking and cycle lane and if needed use some space from the road to realise it.
The first time I had an accident while in SF wasn't from cars parking in bike lane. It was the train track, my tires got caught in one and I flew 50 ft.
You need to learn how to cycle in a town when there are train or tram tracks. Regards from Zurich, a city with tons of tram tracks.
Sooo much more polite than russian drivers.
Not always...
Why don't they install cctv and fine the bastards. They'll soon understand not to do it again.
We wish! Very hard to make it legal to send fines by mail for violations like this. We're working on it, though.
''Irn Rusha wee brewk vindow................lol
Remember that you mess with someone in a bike lane and won't let them leave... you can be arrested for harassment and kidnapping....
LOVE what you're doing! Thank you!!
Thank you for helping to clear the bike lanes! Also, I was told by Santa Monica PD that there is 'no violation' to parking in a bike lane. Hard to believe, but you can cite them for distance from the curb, double parking, or any other offense that fits. To everyone who reads this, please subscribe to my channel (and this one) and share these videos to support the cause!
Wow, apparently that's actually the law.
Why the hell even have bike lanes then?
That law is long overdue for a rework.
Good luck with that.
We, here in Chicago, are dealing with it soooo much.
Especially, since bike lanes are something relatively "new" to the city.
Tell the city council, 200 fine for each car makes a lot of money.
It's not just ignoring traffic rules. They are literally playing with the lives of the cyclists they are pushing into heavy traffic.
If I lived in San Francisco, my car would stay in the garage most of the time. It's difficult to ride a bicycle there, but it's even more difficult to drive. There's just no point.
I'd probably also own many more bikes, because a Douze makes a great grocery getter.
"I'm in town from new york" why do people from new york ALWAYS have to tell you they're from new york, and expect special treatment when they do?
Hey, I'm from Minneapolis! XD haha!
+CandyLaStar I'm going to do that when i go to New York. just always talk about how I'm from Minneapolis and how great it is in Minneapolis
Bad Drivers of Minneapolis hmm... I will also accept I'm from the Twin Cities, and I'm from Minnesota.
Being that I'm from Minneapolis I know the proper way to say that, because I have lived in Minnesota all my life.
Plus being that I'm from Minneapolis, I don't understand why you WOULDN'T want to let everyone know where your from... Speaking of from... Have I told you yet I'm from Minneapolis?... If not Im from Minneapolis! :)
lol I've lived here all my life too. Don't wanna leave
I'm from New York and I never tell tell people that I'm from New York. - joke
The problem also is that you have parking after bikeline and not the other way around, it doesnt creat a protected nikelane in this way, is just extra conflict.
crappy bicycle infra... the cycle lane is in the "doorzone"!
*****
if it is a driver that i've come across doing these irresponsable things on a daily basis, he/she won't be so lucky...
i ride on heavy, OLD bicycles (i currently own 7 gazelle's built between 1938 and 1968), the brakes are in tiptop shape but i'm not always prepared to use them. i once "wrecked" the door off a bmw from a lady who swung her door open at me 3 times in less than 2 weeks, i had warned her for it. i had the choice between colliding with that door or getting in front off a bus with no room to spare...
she insisted on calling the police and for that she got a huge fine and had to pay for all the damages. the netherlands, where i live, has laws to protect cyclists from moronic motorists... ;-)
Keep up the good work...I don't ride a bicycle but i ride a motorcycle around Los Angeles and people just don't care where they put their cars...
you're my heroes! I watch all your episodes and feel so much enlightened when you intimidate those ruthless monsters and chase them away from your precious bike lane. you're like batman of gotham. you're like protector angels of all bikers. the community owes you so much because of making this world a better place to live in... ! thank you! thank you! thank you! I want to hug you in tears of happiness.
You realize that the US is one of the deadliest places in the world for cyclists? Part of that is that the infrastructure that cyclists have as it is is already pretty shitty to nonexistent, and part of that is that dickheads like this force bikes to join with high speed motor traffic which, if you haven't gotten the memo by now, is lethal for cyclists.
Good job for making fun of dead cyclists. Your mom must be so proud.
Come to DC please. We need people like you here
in my country some bike lanes are behind the sidewalk
but when the wanna build a bike lane and they dont have space they compromise one lane and put bike lane behind the parking
Problem is that it does not matter, people are always going to break some rules like these.
Drive against traffic for just the 1 street, park in a no parking allowed zone, Drive to fast, etc etc etc.
People are frustrated as they cannot find the place and think "lets break the rule just this time".
People have trouble finding parking spot, fuck just this time I will put it on the bike lane and quickly come back. No matter how much trouble you make, you cannot compete with the ease to break the rule just this one time. And yes I think the majority will not be frequent offenders. Better facilities are required.
With the advent of autonomous vehicles you will not need to be burdened with the ownership of a car or a lack of space in the future, wonderful science
What kind of emergency is it? It's a deep sigh emergency.
I am surprised that there are no traffic enforcement on bikes issuing citations. That would really boost awareness as well as some revenue for the effort, yo...
A valve stem remover would fix the problem. Takes a few seconds and causes no damage to the vehicle. You could easily hit the rear passenger tire before the driver cleared the front seat.
Great work, guys
Got a area like this in my city people park in the bike lane wait for their kids to get out of school.
The only way to get this properly enforced, is to make it a tow away zone... then everyone with a recovery permit, will keep it clear for you.
Even though i like idea of stopxam i cant tell that i agree 100% with this...firstly imo theese bike lanes are not very clevery placed as they should be next to the sidewalk because cars are for example only stopping for a while and then going back to traffic (not minding the fact that actual trend is to make as mamy bike lanes as possible no matter if they are needed or clevery placed )and secondly i dont think that changing lane (because of obstacle - like car ) is big deal...in the end bikes are part of traffic ,right ? ;) (nope im not from us)
(Yes i have bike)
You're right that the bike lanes are poorly placed. So much so that in many cases they can actually be more dangerous than having no bike lane at all. But there are many cyclists who don't have the skill level to bike with traffic, and when they are using a bike lane and forced out of it into traffic, it can be very dangerous.
It is also dangerous because cars pulling into the bike lanes can hit cyclists (as in our previous video, see here: ua-cam.com/video/JJKg2zWV8nU/v-deo.htmlm48s). So until the city builds safer, protected bike lanes or the police enforce traffic laws which make it illegal to block bike lanes, we will ride to get cars out the bike lane.
Those drivers are so dociale, they go without trouble. I'd love to have the same in France :)
We've been lucky - many drivers here are not so docile: ua-cam.com/video/tmcyAGWAnt8/v-deo.html.
But that's why we bike in groups.
I doubt road raged French drivers pull guns on cyclists like they do in the US. It's becoming a hot button issue in some US states.
easiest thing to do is drag your keys across the car as you pass it
Have you guys ever watched the "stop a douchebag" campaign? They have stickers they plaster on cars that pull stuff like this. But I like that you guys just hand out paper, to protect yourself as well. I really appreciated the guy's acknowledgement that he did something wrong.
edit: thank you for what you're doing. I hope some day the police do this instead like they should be
Put the bike lane on the inside and parking on the outside then no one can load or unload in the bike lane.
Screw'em . Just cycle on the road in their lane . Job done - it's what I do .
Why did you block out the faces and plates
Where did you guys go ?
Why was the most arrogant of the lot, that woman who's friend was "loading drums", had the luxury of her face and plates being censored?
What would happen if you ride into the car?
By riding into/collided a stopped car the cyclist would be at fault if there was any damage, even if the car was stopped/park illegally.
How about start riding bicycle so you can use the bike lane?
If these folks can find this many cars parked/loading in the bike lanes, then why can't the police!
The police don't care. They don't even stop people from pooping or doing drugs on the sidewalk.
Awesome video and awesome work. I know most of us WANT to see you put stickers on cars, a la Stop A Douchebag, but this is NOT Russia and, as you have mentioned in other responses, Americans and American law enforcement do not react well when their personal property is damaged (or just touched).
Although most of us appreciate the urge to go ballistic on these incredibly selfish people who park in bike lanes, I think you are giving yourselves--and all cyclists--good names by acting calm, polite, and doing exactly what you are doing. Screaming, fighting, and flying off the handle--while making you/us feel good for a few minutes--would ultimately be a huge disservice to your own movement.
I'm from Los Angeles so I am not too familiar with the San Francisco LEO culture/community, but have you ever considered alerting local LEO that you will be "patrolling" on a certain day/time and to have an officer number, ready to call, to ticket these goons? It would seem to be a mutually beneficial collaboration: the police generate revenue for the city (which a cynical person might say is their only/true job) and you win by making the bike lane safer.
In any event, KUDOS TO YOU, and please keep up your peaceful activities. While I enjoy other (international) groups that do similar work albeit much more aggressive/confrontational, I think you have the high ground through how you conduct yourselves and it is entirely appropriate behavior..
Thank you for the comment! Our police here tend to have an anti-cyclist bias, and they often refuse to enforce the law on parked (motionless) vehicles, saying that's the responsibility of Parking Enforcement (non-police) officers. You can see us calling parking enforcement in the video, but they take 20-30 minutes to arrive, so the violators are long gone by then. Also, parking enforcement focuses the vast majority of their time on street sweeping and parking permits violations, not violations that actually put people's safety at risk.
But I hope that we can make a name for ourselves and earn a reputation that would allow us to request an enforcement escort one day to actually ticket everyone that we encounter. Knowing this city, that seems unlikely to actually happen, but we can dream.
Bicycle Lane Warriors - I support them!!!
Need some big stickers for the windscreen
That little Asian got rekt. Don't let the fact that the drivers going to move fool you
I don't have it in me to tell people how to live their lives when riding my bike. Not worth my time. I will always just go around the damn car and you, and make sure that I look both ways so as to not get hit and hold up the flow of traffic behind me. My hometown, San Francisco, has become more violent In the last 2 years that you can never know who's liable to just snap and potentially hurt you for telling them to move their car. Just sayin'! Just let people be and stop obstructing my bike lane, whether you're in a car or not. Just go around, you'll get there. Ride safe!
why are you blocking their plates?
If this were in Malta a fight would have started with the first beep
should have a 1000 cyclist with hornet horns sounding them the same time then I think thy get the message are just 1 train horn connected to a E bike trailer :)
Get huge stickers and place them on windshields or break every persons wing mirrors and say have a nice day
The obvious and very easy solution is to swap the bike lane with the parking lane, and yes, i'm Dutch :-)
This is another example of crappy cycling infrastructure. These issues will never go away unless dedicated bikes lanes are built🤦🏻
Great work you're doing! Wish we had a group like this in Albuquerque!
I hate them standing in bike lanes as well. But face it, if there is no bike lane, cars can just stop anywhere for loading, just like in the old days.
Now we have bike lane with only painting but no barrier, so cars would still interpret that as a space for standing. Unless tickets are enforced like speeding or running the red, drivers won't take it seriously.
Think putting a physical barrier would stop this but it is annoying when car drivers say to use the bike lane, then they block it.. they need to get finned
.And by may 2017 there will not only be cards. but stickers too
Tin of spray paint!!!
We have same problem in. NYC. They just don’t enforce the law….forcing us cyclist onto traffic.. good job you guys are doing
This must be in Canada, lol!
Spray paint helps to make them don't want to stop in the bike lane
very surprised to see that Russian project of Stop a Douchebag , has been implemented in the US;
awesome project! love it
La responsabilidad es de la policía, que debería velar por que los conductores de los coches respeten el carril bici y obviamente no lo hacen.
Es triste que unos ciudadanos (ciclistas) tengan que hacer el trabajo enfrentándose a los infractores, arriesgándose a tener discusiones con los mismos.
Si los coches estuvieran en medio de la calzada, seguramente la policía actuaría de una manera diferente.
Es una discriminación en toda regla.
Just puncture their tires! That'll send them a message & hopefully they'll remember or they must have lots of spare tires...
where was that video taken ? its not OZ;
learn to read video descriptions
already did
Do a “ Casey Neistat “ and run into them with an old very heavy beat up bike and then scream as if in horrible pain .
Should scrape your bike along side of each car that does that
Police are so eager to hand out tickets where are they now?
Don't get me started on yard sales!
While it is great what you're doing, I do have to wonder what brainlets thought the horizontal stripes on the bike lane were a good idea. They basically whisper "PARK HERE".
Two more parts of the equation are missing: 1) actual protected bike lanes that are not a painted line on the road between high speed traffic and the door zone of parked cars, and 2) actual enforcement so that people learn to respect the painted bike gutters that really can't be replaced by proper bike infrastructure.
Keep up the good job though.
How about how when the bicyclists break the law and don't think anything of it.
Now you cyclists make sure you stop at stop signs and red lights.
these cars drivers just dont care ; its all about them and the 'me, me, me.'
I'd suggest investing in a paintball gun and liberally hit all the windows.
But the laws don't apply to me !
Yay new video!!
Yay! Yea, it takes me quite some time to put these together...
No rush! I love the work you all are doing, people need to know NOT to park in our bike lanes.
theyre not yours .
drunkrudetat2d Yes, they are our bike lanes.
do you have to pay an ungodly fee to register your bike for road travel? you do know what vehicle registrations pay for, dont you?
Why you blur the faces and licence plates? That's anonymity they really, really don't deserve.
one time me and my friend both got hit by a car that was in the bike lane. we weren't hurt but our bikes sure were. We were both only 11 at the time so.....
Man, I’m a cyclist but this just seems overkill. It makes cyclists seem entitled and like the owners of the road. I understand the drivers situation as it may be impossible or not worth the time to find a parking spot only to buy like a bag of chips at a store or something.
came from "Avoiding All The Things in the 30th St Bike Lane through North Park" by @RidingBikesinSanDiego through youtube recommend
Being fat, lazy, and selfish are not valid excuses to park in a cycle-lane.
Car-drivers complain about Cyclists being on the road, but then they block the designated bicycle lane.