Oddbean new post about login | logout have occasionally encountered motor vehicles stopped in the bike lane in BCN but it doesn’t make me as mad as it did in DC because a) there’s **so much** bike lane it’s not like they’re encroaching on your tiny sliver of non-car space, there’s plenty of non-car space, and b) the speed of traffic in general is sooooo much slower it’s not nearly as scary or tricky to go around. oh and probably c) it just happens a lot less because there are real penalties.
@dee34601 when there is impunity, it feels like people park in the bike lane just to humiliate cyclists. Of course being a cyclist is temporary and voluntary, unlike racial caste, but reading about the little humiliations of Jim Crow I often see the exact same behaviors toward cyclists. Like being forced to use the service entrance. And of course having safe infrastructure taken at any moment. When the state doesn't back the drivers, when there is recourse, their behavior is less humiliating.