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came from "Avoiding All The Things in the 30th St Bike Lane through North Park" by @RidingBikesinSanDiego through youtube recommend

This problem could be partially solved by having street parking next to the moving cars and the bike lane to the right of the parked cars, between the parked cars and the sidewalk (install some concrete bollards in between them). This would also solve the issue of the danger from cyclists getting doored by drivers opening their doors without looking. But I love you persistent but polite you guys are, even when they don't deserve it. Keep it up!

4:05 is a great fragment!

I tend to go more incognito when I report drivers. I just take a picture and call the parking authority. Then, I leave the scene because I don't feel like potentially getting into an argument with a Philly driver :/ .

Being fat, lazy, and selfish are not valid excuses to park in a cycle-lane. Car-drivers complain about Cyclists being on the road, but then they block the designated bicycle lane.

And yet cyclists are the ones who are arrogant.

We have same problem in. NYC. They just don’t enforce the law….forcing us cyclist onto traffic.. good job you guys are doing

these cars drivers just dont care ; its all about them and the 'me, me, me.'

In UK we have bus lanes and these are filmed and the amount if revenue the council make from fines is ridiculous into the high £1000s a year and car drivers moan so they should be a similar thing in cycle lanes over here ( U.K.) and USA

If you really want to be effective, look up their address from the license plate and go to their house and stand on the public easement or sidewalk with a camera on a tripod and do a news report following up on the incident. This is totally legal and protected by the first amendment and if they come out ask them to comment on the incident, you know, were you the driver? Why did you park in the bike lane? Do you know that it is unsafe and illegal? Do you do this often? How do you feel about cyclists using the roads? There's nothing they or the police can do to stop this and then publish it to youtube. Become journalists and follow up. Find out all the public information you can about the house and the vehicle and report it to the public and film it right in front of their house or business. This would be especially effective with commercial vehicles. Go to the business and stand out front narrating and when they come out ask them if they are aware that their employees are violating the law in the course of their jobs. Show a clip of the incident while you are interviewing them. They most likely won't answer and that makes them look guilty. My "wife was having a baby" would be a legitimate reason for parking. I "needed to get my takeout order" is not. It would be a different take on the whole first amendment audit craze. Go stand in front of the police station and report on incidents of the police blocking the bike lane and when they come out to confront you, as they will, interview them and then publish it along with contact information for the department. Go inside and do a public information request and find out who was driving that car that day and get their discipline records and publish that along with their picture and their yearly salary. Don't think it would be effective? Some auditor channels have over a half million subscribers and some are so popular that they get approached by fans every time they do an audit anywhere in the country. Amagansett Press is a great example of this. Almost every video now they get approached by their fans and they go all over the country doing audits. That would be a lot more effective than banging pots. You could be arrested for disorderly conduct doing that.

What might be effective is to take out a full-page ad once a month in the local newspaper with pictures of all these jerks and a link to the video of them kind of like the police blotter that is published in the paper. There's no expectation of privacy in public and it's legal to film people and their actions in public and publish it.

I admire what they are doing but it's a hopeless battle. It does make for interesting footage though. Entitled drivers will not care and will continue to park in bike lanes. The easy way to fix this is to have a website where people can upload videos to the police along with license plates and faces so the police can send them a fine in the mail. If they don't pay it they have to appear in court.

Gosh I hope the acupuncture lady wasn't disturbed by the cyclist being hit on the street, it would mess up her 50$ acupuncture session.

I could never live in a city so full of buttholes and very selfish buttholes at that

Need some big stickers for the windscreen

While it is great what you're doing, I do have to wonder what brainlets thought the horizontal stripes on the bike lane were a good idea. They basically whisper "PARK HERE". Two more parts of the equation are missing: 1) actual protected bike lanes that are not a painted line on the road between high speed traffic and the door zone of parked cars, and 2) actual enforcement so that people learn to respect the painted bike gutters that really can't be replaced by proper bike infrastructure. Keep up the good job though.

A valve stem remover would fix the problem. Takes a few seconds and causes no damage to the vehicle. You could easily hit the rear passenger tire before the driver cleared the front seat.

Most of the car drivers were stopped for a short visit, like to an ATM. This bike rider pest should get a job instead of being an annoying boofhead.

This came up .. 6 years later and it's still the same. Is it actually OK to show the plates of the offenders ( vs it being a 'privacy violation' because now everyone knows/could know who they are ) ? I so wish they could get rid of some of that on-street parking also, less chance of getting hit by a door.

That girl is so embarrassing

This is six years ago. Is it the same In 2022?

I will scratch that car

you guys have so much free time to harass busy people in their cars

why does she have a pan and a spoon to call who

I feel terrible that you have to deal with this, but again, this is crappy cycling infrastructure that is very dangerous! On top of that you are always having to confront people to move. Obviously, this design is an after thought. Brutal!

This is another example of crappy cycling infrastructure. These issues will never go away unless dedicated bikes lanes are built🤦🏻

You need to employ the same tactics as the Russian site "StopXam Msc" (stop a douchebag civic movement) - place a big fat sticker on the passenger side of the windscreen.

I never new bike lanes were for parking your car in so that you could pick up your bicycle. 3:09

They’d never dream of stopping in the middle of the road to pick someone up, why do they think it’s ok to do that in the bike lane🤔

must be like passing against the wind.

The problem also is that you have parking after bikeline and not the other way around, it doesnt creat a protected nikelane in this way, is just extra conflict.

Most of these people are using the "I can park anywhere flashing lights" so they're good.

La responsabilidad es de la policía, que debería velar por que los conductores de los coches respeten el carril bici y obviamente no lo hacen. Es triste que unos ciudadanos (ciclistas) tengan que hacer el trabajo enfrentándose a los infractores, arriesgándose a tener discusiones con los mismos. Si los coches estuvieran en medio de la calzada, seguramente la policía actuaría de una manera diferente. Es una discriminación en toda regla.

Where are the police when you need them? They could have collected alot of money from all those cars

0:33 In Belgium that's 3 separate fines if a police officer really wants to get a message through. One for parking in the wrong place, one for endangering weak road users, and one for wrongful use of the 4 emergency blinker lights. But you bet if a police car or bike passed these people here, they'd all get at least a severe warning, And at worst a serious fine and maybe even a revoked licence for repeat offenders. The penalty for parking in a bike lane here is 110 to 1375 euro and a possible revoked licence for 5 days to 8 YEARS. You bet this phenomenon has gotten extremely rare here...

She's gonna get hers one of these days .... fu**kin frui*cake

People are so polite to the jerks in SF. In NY we just call them an a-hole that they are. Watch Zero Enigma’s channel if you want an example

Car drivers are so obnoxious

You gotta love the Libs

I’d park an not move idiots

We have the same problem in UK.😁

It is a pity that we will have to retort to public shaming to get motorists to follow the law, but it if comes to that I guess we have to.

I don't have it in me to tell people how to live their lives when riding my bike. Not worth my time. I will always just go around the damn car and you, and make sure that I look both ways so as to not get hit and hold up the flow of traffic behind me. My hometown, San Francisco, has become more violent In the last 2 years that you can never know who's liable to just snap and potentially hurt you for telling them to move their car. Just sayin'! Just let people be and stop obstructing my bike lane, whether you're in a car or not. Just go around, you'll get there. Ride safe!

Officer did nothing

should have a 1000 cyclist with hornet horns sounding them the same time then I think thy get the message are just 1 train horn connected to a E bike trailer :)

F up their paint job.

I live in UK. I visited SF with a bike several times in the noughties and saw many signs saying “cars parked in the bike lane will be towed” - for example along the road that extends the Embarcadero - I thought they were everywhere. Thank you for doing this work (on behalf of cyclists all over the world). I also saw cops on bikes - cant you get these guys also supporting your case ? By the way, its the same everywhere - and I question the value of on-road painted lines given the dooring problem and the evidence that drivers pass cyclists closer where there are painted cycle lanes and also bully cyclists for not being in those lanes. Keep up the good work.

Honestly this is just bad city design..

1:38 so subscribed!

Mind your own business