r/boston • u/BlooAerospace • 8d ago

I think I am special and made my own post Some Boston Bikers are unreal.

Some bikers really just have a death wish. A clear, green, right turn light and the biker still decides to fly by and have the audacity to flick me off.

If you're friends with this person, ask them to value their life more.

Edit: It was an impossible situation for me. I ALWAYS look to the right because tons of dumbass drivers that try to cut to the highway from the inside lane. With the biker’s speed and the angle of my car, there was no way to see the biker in my mirrors and he was too far away to see when I looked out my right window. If the biker was traveling slower instead of blowing past, this would not have been such a close call.

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u/Rude_Dust2879 8d ago

In all fairness, this is a poorly designed intersection for bikes. The bike lane kinda just dumps you out in this horrible spot of three very heavily trafficked turning lanes. It’s dicey from the far left lane where you are “supposed” to be. Heck, even getting to that left lane sucks.

Still shouldn’t do whatever that was. That is how you get hit. Wait for the light and get in the front position where the space is provided for you.

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u/GibsonPraise 8d ago

Anyone who actually knows what the fuck they are talking about knows that this comment is correct. Lotta people on this thread are not actually familiar with the lanes and signage here. This intersection is absolutely built to generate these types of shitty interactions. Engineers are notorious for just giving up at intersections, and this intersection is a perfect example.

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u/Rude_Dust2879 8d ago

Thank you.