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Originally Posted by Rizzo
You can’t expect the police to be everywhere to enforce. Of all the close calls there’s probably like 0.00001% chance they will be anywhere nearby to see or receive a report of a reckless driver. Chicago must develop a redundant grid of physically separated bike lanes every mile square on minor arterials and I feel like that will actually happen in the next decade.
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Of course the cops won't be everywhere. That's not how enforcement works. People obey the law because they know they might get a ticket, even if the odds are low. But now the cops have all but abandoned their duty to enforce traffic laws across the city, and drivers have picked up on that pretty quickly, especially the most reckless drivers. They've noticed that, whereas they used to get tickets once a month, now they're getting none. And they feel emboldened to treat our streets like a drag strip.
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Originally Posted by glowrock
As a member of the esteemed bike community, can you please push your fellow community members to stay the hell off the sidewalk when riding on corridors that already have bike lanes present.
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In my area, most of the people riding on sidewalks are migrants from Latin America who are being "housed" at the local police station or nearby. They just have a different conception of public space, I guess. I agree it's annoying, but when reckless drivers also feel entitled to park in bike lanes and on sidewalks and the drivers are actually out here killing people, I can't get worked up about a relatively harmless dude riding a Divvy on the sidewalk.