Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

GreenTunicKirk t1_j64iob0 wrote

Dude was in the wrong. He blows through a red light and the video showed no sign of him slowing.

Shamey was in the wrong. Arent hit and runs a felony in the state?

City was in the wrong. For not properly enforcing parking rules, there was a vehicle parked at the corner, blocking the crosswalk and visibility.

Person blocking crosswalk was wrong. Whoever decides “fuck it I’ll take a ticket” was lazy and shouldn’t have parked there.

What we are seeing here will happen time and time again, until we are able to better enforce parking measure, increase accessibility for pedestrians and bike lanes (yeah you heard me), and have our actual police do things they are hired to do, not just stand around Newark Ave with their phones out playing candy crush.

This is the human cost of urban development and growth, in real time.

58

StoryofTheGhost33 t1_j656ths wrote

The bicyclists should be sued for delivering Uber eats while wearing flip flops. Who does that?

8

mmmmyah t1_j65qqkk wrote

People who have been run over by these law breaking bicyclists

−1

JCYimby t1_j6c2grz wrote

What does urban development and growth have to do with his inability to follow traffic rules and her inability to follow common sense and stop?

−1

jlichyen t1_j6caniu wrote

Setting aside "urban development" and "growth", there's lots of ways to design a street intersection -- for example, pedestrian bulbs at the corner so cars can't park in the crosswalk -- so that cyclists and drivers can see who is coming from the other directions with more than enough distance to stop in time. Hoboken has many intersections with these improvements.

If these had been done, both the cyclist and the driver would have been more likely to see the other, and stop sooner (possibly).

4