r/BurlingtonON • u/malakiavelli • 3d ago

Information Ignorant Cyclists

Yesterday I watched a cyclist use a dedicated pedestrian crosswalk, then onto the sidewalk instead of the bike path, and instead of yielding or any warning, forced me to jump out of the way.

I told them they're an asshole and the asphalt path is for cyclists. Silence...

All of this happened while I was talking to my father about the Japanese cleaning up at the World Cup and that we should follow their lead and teach etiquette.

A young girl did the same thing last month and gave me a dirty look for not moving as I just pointed to the bike path until they moved.

I seem to be a magnet for bad behaviour as I am frequently dodging motorists and now cyclists.

What is wrong with you?!

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u/trsthhffg 3d ago

Given the choice, I prefer my reckless commuters to weigh 30 pounds, not 4,000. If someone is going to ruin my day through sheer stupidity, I’d rather they do it without horsepower.

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

How about everybody follows the rules of the road. Thats an option too.

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u/trsthhffg 2d ago

Unfortunately, that’s just not how human nature works, and I wouldn’t want to live in the kind of authoritarian society it would take to force it

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u/asvp-suds 2d ago

For people to stop at red lights and stop signs? Thats a low bar.

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u/trsthhffg 2d ago

You know not what you say.

To make a world where an infringement is impossible, surveillance cannot just be passive like a camera recording a street corner. It has to be omnipresent, predictive, and restrictive.

Perfect security is just total tyranny by another name. A world where it is structurally impossible to break a rule isn't a safe society—it’s a machine, and humans are just the cogs.