Posted Aug 30, 2023, 4:26 PM
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look at us still talking
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Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Loop, Chicago
Posts: 6,570
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Originally Posted by ardecila
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.
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.
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I think riding on a sidewalk is not a huge deal as long as it's done slowly and carefully and the biker yields to pedestrians.
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