This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.

  • DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Is this an officially sanctioned event that has been authorized to take over a whole road?

    If not, slower traffic should keep to the right. Share the road. Don’t be a dick. It’s not hard.

    Edit: just realized where I am. This could have all been avoided with better public transportation. Fuck cars.

    Edit #2: as a society we should absolutely be building public transportation and protected bike lanes. However, there are a shocking number of people talking about “entitled” this and “entitled” that and have no idea what the actual laws are for sharing the road using the current existing infrastructure in this video.

    This video appears to be an asshole in a car passing some assholes on bicycles.

    Florida Statute § 316.081(3): On a road, street, or highway having two or more lanes allowing movement in the same direction, a driver may not continue to operate a motor vehicle in the furthermost left-hand lane if the driver knows or reasonably should know that he or she is being overtaken in that lane from the rear by a motor vehicle traveling at a higher rate of speed.

    Florida Statute § 316.2065(5)(a): A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway at less than the normal speed of traffic at the time and place and under the conditions then existing must ride in the bicycle lane or, if there is no bicycle lane on the roadway, as close as practicable to the right-hand curb or edge of the roadway

    Every cyclist in the left lane blocking the faster traffic should be written a ticket.

    Unless they’ve gone through some kind of permitting process then they have no more moral ground than the street takeover assholes that go around shutting down roads to do donuts.

    • UnequalExchange@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      THANK YOU.

      If an evernt is not officially sanctioned ? In my opinion ANYRHING, AND I MEAN ANYTHING, can happen in there and I wouldnt care. Unless there are kids there? I dont care for anyone there. Sorry. If anyone wants to hold a. massive event that will DEFINITELY clog up a public road or area? Yooooo you better fucking get that bitch approved first. Like the only massive public event that doesnt need to be approved is a massive public violent protest … and thats it.

      I remember watching this one video of a guy who crashed died during one of those unofficial ‘street takeover’ events and he ended killing a few other people there who were happily watching it and also clogging up that road and the comments were so sad for them…

      uhhhh…

      I find it very hard to feel sad for adults who dont tell anyone that they will clog up the public areas that WE ALL PAY TAXES FOR, , intentionally clog up a road, drive their cars in circles at irrantionally dangerous speeds, race each other on unofficial race tracks , and then end up learning the valuable lesson that ‘Moving really quickly has never been a problem, its just the stopping really quickly.’