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Dude. You are mentally ill. What the heck. How is a full family relying on you? This is honestly scary

Wrong way bikers are going to get themselves fucked up by cars is actually my worry

I think he got banned due to him only being 11 years old.

I don't know that I'll make it to Green St station, but is there a way to know when they'll be coming through Cambridge to join?

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Here's why I do it:

1. Safer than riding in the street
2. Safer than riding on the sidewalk
3. If no one else is in the bike lane
4. If it's faster to my destination than finding another bike lane the direction I need to go

If Sommeridge had more / better bike infrastructure then no one would need to. I don't think anyone really does this with malicious intent.

And if you'd like you prove me "wrong" I'd love to hear the evidence, big shoots.

It’s actually called “ Calnan Sq”

Official name

WWII resident who was KIA in Italy

Protestors for affirmative action have been out & about recently, although mostly closer to Harvard.

Yeah you're right; it was totally unnecessary and not at all constructive. Not my proudest moment on the internet.

Today I saw a guy biking in the car lane the wrong way at a four-way intersection. An oncoming car honked and the biker gave him the finger and continued along his jolly way. It was... Weird.

Edit: to clarify, I'm pro-bikes, just anti-this-guy.

So you are leftist that kisses the boots of the oil and gas industry? good luck with that. you may want to just move on

IMO if it's: -Not crowded -Not bike lane on their side -and they pull over to get out of the way when someone going the right way comes by, Then it's Kosher

Assuming this isn't a joke post, you were just incredibly rude to an autistic child.

Aping at being a character from the Big Bang Theory? That's harsh.

I see op deleted his or her account.

Academic prowess aside, kid needs to learn some humility.

The bike lane is 2-way by the Boston Common, and then back to one-way by the Public Garden. Confusing for everyone.

Based on what I've read in this sub and others, whichever way the cyclist is going is the right way. It can never be wrong.

Probably some boomer nimbys complaining about the much safer intersection there

The danger that a bike poses to a pedestrian is not even an adjacent order of magnitude compared to a car.

It is a problem. Cyclists should not be reckless. But this constant line that bikers are some how a massive threat to pedestrian safety is not backed up by data or rational thought

All the time. In Somerville and Boston too. Almost took one out while making a safe and slow left turn in my car. Sadly, I believe a serious accident or 4 will have to happen in order for this to stop.

Yeah it seems like the kind of thing that would actually produce more bad than good, which is why I’ve never followed through.

Breaking the rules, to preserve their safety by endangering others. Especially when riding on the sidewalk. It’s the same asshole mentality that makes certain drivers especially dangerous. Get off and walk your bike if you are afraid to follow the rules while riding.

I feel like there is a lack of biking-experience - people don't seem to understand that they have to follow the same traffic rules as any other vehicle. Perhaps due to a high rate of transplants from non-bikeable cities?

Sometimes people feel it's safer to ride the wrong way in the bike lane than to cross a busy street to the opposite side. I've seen that a fair amount from the BlueBike corral on Garden St; the Harvard students feel it's easier to hop onto outbound bike lane to get them inbound towards Cambridge Common (rather than cross Garden, bike down two blocks, and then cross again towards the Common).

We'll see if that changes now after the new traffic routing in that section, which should include a safer story for cyclists heading towards the Common from SE-bound Garden.

That’s not taught anywhere in the US. Walk/run against traffic yes, because you can jump out of the way. Bikes can’t jump out of the way and the closing speed with traffic is far higher.