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No idea why that's necessary. This is quite common in my country.
Allowed by law here, if you take certain precautions. Judging from the motorcycle, it seems this group also took precautions to keep the group safe.
It's funny how you complain about entitlement.
I don't have a dog in this race, so not really complaining about anything. I'm just pointing out that regardless of what's legal, this is a failure of both safety and courtesy. Slower traffic stay to one side, let others go by.
The WHOLE conflict here is caused by entitlement. The cyclists think they are entitled to the whole road, through force of numbers, herd mentality, or whatever. The car feels entitled to drive how ever fast he wants and safety be damned. The car is obviously MORE in the wrong, but the whole situation could have been avoided.
At first I thought it's a good idea. Now I think that maybe cars flying past may be a problem if something happens and someone falls or just swings out of lane, then it would require a bigger space, but cars will likely just think that this space could also be used and fill it.
On the other hand, I know nothing about how to organise these safely, and I'm always afraid of cars, so prefer to be on separate bike lanes whenever possible
Cars are constantly getting into bicyclist spaces, I never had so many close calls as when I was wearing high vis in the bike lanes. I swear they swerve to see how close they can get.
Sounds like you do indeed have a dog in this race. It's crazy how cyclists can use the road in complete accordance of the law and be called entitled when a car is made to slow down behind them for a few minutes. No law is being broken here, the cyclists are in fact taking the full lane, as driver training and regulation suggest that they should. It's for their own protection since, as you can see, Florida motorists can be complete psychopaths.
Seeing how wide the road is, there's no reason to block the whole road in one direction. This doesn't seem to be a competition, just a casual ride. Block a single lane then.
This is on the immediate approach to a short but narrow causeway where it would be in the group's safety interest to not get broken up or pushed onto the gutter on the bridge.
Heaven forbid; not the whole road?!
I mean. They are using an entire thing when they don’t need to and other people also want to use the thing.
Oh no, you're getting to your destination marginally later. The tragedy.
Or we could, you know, share.
Try telling that to drivers in traffic. No car has ever moved out of my way on a bike and I've been cycling for decades.
I try telling everybody to share. People really have a lot of trouble doing it.
They are sharing the road. Nobody is blocking the cars from using the road. They're just upset they can't go faster.
When one has to experience a moment without a privilege or entitlement they've become used to, it can feel to them like an grievous injury.
You don't know the driver's life. His wife could be in labor, he could be trying to visit a dying loved one, or rush home because he left the stove on.
Besides, it's the law that slow moving traffic stay on the right side.
And stfu about safety. Do you how many alligators are in this video literally just off screen? At least 50.
Not sure what your point is. A traffic jam is way more common and then the driver would be completely stuck.
Clearly there's also no legal issue, as OP said this is a weekly event. Since Americans are masters at complaining, it would have long been stopped.
It's illegal, but the cops are too busy beating the shit out of minorities to care about cyclists blocking the flow of traffic. If you're not from the states, you have no right to speak on the traffic law here.
And then risks their own life pulling this stunt?