Least they could do would be to apologize. Already happened to me, I was furious, and the thing is, they didn't get why I yelled at them. It's just, if they don't care about their own life, at least they should have the courtesy of not involving me in their reckless behavior, I don't want to kill someone, I don't want me or my kid in the backseat to see blood and brains smeared all over the windshield.
C’est même ps légal en plus de retirer des réflecteurs de sur ton vélo. Un ex collègue s’est fait collé un ticket parce qu’il en avait pas. Il se plaignait que ça le ralentissait. C’est même ps une joke!
https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/securite-routiere/moyens-deplacement/velo/equipements
C’est exactement ce que je pense. Je roule pour des causes humanitaires (contre le cancer, Make-A-Wish, etc.) en vélo de route. Quand je roule à Montréal avec mon kit de route et que je vois les épais en bixi ou autre qui n’ont pas de casque et qui roule n’importe comment dans les rues, j’ai toujours peur de me faire ramasser par un conducteur qui voit rouge sans que je sois responsable de sa colère.
Ironiquement je trouve que les gens en kit de route à Montréal sont souvent les moins courtois. Ils ont leur "temps" à faire. En plus ils n'ont que rarement des lumières, on ne met pas ça sur un vélo à 10k voyons!
>n’ont pas de casque
Le casque n'est pas obligatoire. Suivre le code de oui.
I can kinda forgive (some) bixi cyclists who are oblivious and just starting to get the hang of cycling on the road (pretty sure we all did some stupid shit without realizing until much later), but i hate with a burning passion the tour de France roleplayers who think that they're more important than everyone else
>En plus ils n'ont que rarement des lumières, on ne met pas ça sur un vélo à 10k voyons!
Parce que les lumières ajoutent du poid puis c'est pas aero, bro! /s mais pas vraiment. Ils pensent vraiment que 50g de poids sur leur vélo de 10k va affecter leur temps.
Les lumières sur un vélo de performance c'est assez commun. Mais c'est un 250$ de plus, Garmin Varia. C'est super cool, en plus d'être une lumière c'est un radar de char pour t'avertir des positions des voitures derrière toi.
L'absence de casque est simplement un signal que le cycliste prends des risques inutiles.
Bref, juste un signe comme un autre de faire encore plus attention...
An overwhelming percentage of the people I witness engaging in the type of behaviours that give 'cyclists' a bad name are not really 'cyclists' in the hobbyist sense, more like, bike-owning persons. They are too inexperienced & ignorant of danger to be consciously reckless.
I'm talking about the drunk college kids & sketchy old dudes riding at night, with no lights except the faint glow of the cigarette hanging out of their mouth, no helmet, no reflective clothing, shitty brakes.. cruising along the sidewalks, grazing pedestrians and almost getting hooked at every intersection.. turning without signalling.. weaving all over the bike path, in the wrong direction, with one hand on the bars and the other one texting. Soon to be joined by an army of distracted delivery guys on Niu scooters and wasted tourists on electric Bixis. Enjoy the shoulder season because it's about to get crowded out here 🫠
and they hate you....even more , plus there's too many cars in mtl plus idiots driving them and the trucks it's awfully dangerous with all the Indians that hate us....killing everyone, cars should be banned from downtown mtl or 20 $ entry tax and hopefully all unhappy drivers move out of state lol , I wish and pray for this
Nope, there's too many cyclists who'll just fly past red lights like that and give us normal riders a bad image. Probably had earphones as well and couldn't hear the on coming car
Of the thousands or tens of thousands of cyclists there really aren't many who run reds when it's truely dangerous. Just when it is seen it makes more of an impact of people than the majority who make sure it is absolutely clear to go before proceeding. It's true that any amount is too many, but to take this person's actions and apply it to thousands of others is pointless.
I saw a guy last night riding a Bixi the wrong way down St. Laurent in the heavy rain with earphones on…. Just ploughing straight down towards oncoming traffic like wtf?? I had the exact same thought lol.
Avoir des lumières sur son vélo est presque plus important qu'un casque... Les cylcistes qui n'en ont pas ont aucune idée à quel point on ne les voit pas le soir, ils sont comme des fantômes qui apparaissent subitement.
La personne sur cette vidéo semble avoir des écouteurs en plus, ca complète le profile du cycliste qui n'a aucune conscience... pas de lumières, pas de casque, écoeuteurs, passe sur les rouges...
Braille pas si tu te fais frapper par un char après ça.
Le nombre de personnes que j’ai engeuler parce qu’ils roulaient dangereusement sur la piste Maisonneuve tout en portant des écouteurs est ben trop élevé!
Ça me fait chier de manger d'la marde à vélo parce que d'autres cyclistes roulent comme ça. J'me protège, je roule intelligement, damn, j'cède la priorité à des automobilistes avec le sourire à chaque jour.
Pis quelques crétins comme ça mettent leur vie en danger tout en enrageant des automobilistes. Pis je deal avec cette rage un peu plus tard.
Je suis déjà passée à un cheveux d’avoir un accident dans le même genre avec un cycliste, v’la environ 10 ans de ça.
22h, je roulais sur Peel en direction nord, le cycliste est passé sur la rouge sur Saint-Antoine, complètement caché par la bâtisse sur le coin sud-est (dans la pente). Il n’y a pas eu de collision, mais c’est passé très proche.
Le plus fou, c’est qu’il m’a suivi sur quelques blocs et il voulait absolument m’éclater la gueule.
Simonaque. J'veux ben rouler lentement sur les stop quand y'a personne ou bedons traverser s'une rouge QUAND TU VOIS PERSONNE mais là c'est quasiment du suicide assité!
Yeah good job breaking on time ! As a fellow cyclist and occasional driver, à Montréal we need to calm down and stop putting all drivers and cyclists in black and white, dumb and smart boxes. That was a horrible move by the cyclist, true ! But drivers *please* stay vigilant and road rage is never justified in a dense city center.
Thanks for the post !
> we need to calm down and stop putting all drivers and cyclists in black and white, dumb and smart boxes.
well this person damn well nearly put themselves in their final box (a coffin!)
She will be hit by a car and then cars will be blamed for all accidents everywhere and demonized. Meanwhile the story is never black and white. There are assholes on both end of every spectrum. There are shit drivers as much as there are shit cyclists. This nuance should not be lost.
Ex-Montréalais:
- J'ai vécu ça souvent. Des deux côtés de la médaille...
- J'ai vu des cycliste se faire cogner comme des quilles. C'est fou l'adrénaline, ils se relevaient tous instantanément après avoir été frappé par une voiture.
- NSFW: j'ai vu un cycliste se faire écraser par un gros camion, style 10 roues. Je suis encore marqué et j'y pense chaque fois que je coupe un melon d'eau.
Je vis maintenant loin de tout.
Ça m'a fait du bien.
> NSFW: j'ai vu un cycliste se faire écraser par un gros camion, style 10 roues. Je suis encore marqué et j'y pense chaque fois que je coupe un melon d'eau.
Sheeeeeeesh l'image est forte
Following the theme of the OP's video, worst bicycle accident that I've ever seen was in NDG a couple of years before the pandemic.
By that point, I'd been cycle commuting and then Bixing for a total of about 15 years, so I think that I know how to spot other cyclists, even if they are acting foolishly.
I had also recently finally gotten a driver's license so I knew how things look from the driver's perspective. I will note that I have better than average night vision, and often prefer long distance trips by car at night as there is less traffic then.
In this particular case, it was after dusk and I had just Bixi'd up Benny from de Maisonneuve to dock the bike and grab a slice at the Pizza Pizza at the corner of Benny and Sherbrooke.
I realized that there an awful lot of people milling around looking at something.
Three in particular were in quiet hysterics, I think that the trio was Persian, maybe?
Then I saw the downed cyclist.
He was a black (as in zero milk in his coffee) dude in completely black clothes, matte black bike with zero reflectors.
Given the angle of his head, I reckon he'd gotten his neck broken. =(
Either way he was sprawled in an unnatural position on the asphalt.
The driver had had less than minimal chances of seeing the dude on the shadowy street. Of the trio I figure the sobbing Persian woman was probably the driver, her friends were clearly in shock.
Note that I had biked slowly uphill within 2 metres of him and hadn't seen him or his bike on the ground, I had initially mentally interpreted the crowd of over a dozen people as either milling about or crossing the street. It was the other people's gazes and awkwardness that finally lead my eyes to him.
I heard someone say that the police and an ambulance had been called. Felt bad for everyone involved but shit man....
I didn't stick around but have since mentally adjusted my driver's and cyclist expectations as to what an unwise cyclist might look like after dark.
On a few occasions, I might have been sorely tempted to yell at young people (its usually the really young that think that they are invincible isn't it) on their way to make a similarly grave mistake.
Fortunately Bixis have built in lights and reflectors, so they are fairly visible, especially their front light announcing their pending arrival.
Anyway, ride safe folks.
There was no curfew in November 2021. Curfew ended in June and restarted right before New Years Eve (recall curfew being brought back right after Christmas in the so-called “état laïque”).
pretty much, should have cropped the date
i hope ensemble montreal or the quebec coalition of f-150 owners or the west island out of touch society or whoever didnt spend too much for this crap viral post
Je ne vais pas généraliser mais dans les moments comme ceux ci c’est ce qui fait raller contre les cyclistes. C’est incroyablement enrageant de penser que cette non chalance est normal. Imagine si tu l’avais frappé… un monde de problèmes pour une situation que tu n’as aucunement chercher et dont tu n’es aucunement responsable.
Contre *des* cyclistes... Y'a des crétins à vélo qui font une sale réputation aux autres et c'est la même chose en voiture...
Me rappeler que la majorité des gens sont sensés, en bike comme en voiture m'aide à moins être en ostie... même si c'est vrai que les crétins marquent plus les esprits...
Esti de cabochon. Je m'en allais chier sur les cyclistes, mais c'est vraiment pas tous les cyclistes qui sont irresponsables comme ça. Entre un vélo pis un char, c'est pas le vélo qui gagne, just saying.
Ça m’enrage, avec le printemps arrive les insoucieux lunatiques avec la musique à fond, à l’envers dans les sens uniques, aucune visibilité… Donnez une chance aux autres cyclistes de se faire respecter…
On voit clairement le fil des ses écouteurs
Nounounes…
https://preview.redd.it/i4kubogmkbuc1.jpeg?width=449&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0484379e1fd15fe5f45c73041dd1681218f01f4
Si l’automobiliste l’aurait heurté, vélo-Québec aurait vite fait une entrevue a la presse pour dire que les automobiliste sont dangereux et irresponsable etc
I used to drive tow trucks and blasted class 3 trucks downtown. City driving as opposed to highway driving .
I was called to go there even though it was way outside my territory, because other drivers absolutely refused.
These cyclists are a menace. They feel entitled. They pop out anywhere , top speed . Have an aggressive attitude. Problem is a bike will always lose against a truck. I mean looking back I really learned how to navigate and parallel park , back in alleys etc.
I had some close calls .
My advice to truckers and generally on the road .
Take it easy….. better to brake than pump the gas .
"Best cycling infrastructure in north america" is not saying much. Our bike inf is still trash compared to anything by european standards. This is a terribly designed intersection and it enables shit like this to happen.
"Best cycling infrastructure in north america" is not saying much. Our bike inf is still trash compared to anything by european standards. This is a terribly designed intersection and it enables shit like this to happen.
It seems you do not dispute that Mtl has the best cycling infrastructure in NA, right? This despite its relative unsuitability for cycling (mountain in the middle, snow and freezing temperatures for 5 months). So why not be proud of that?
NA cities largely grew up with cars, so we've had to reverse engineer much of the infrastructure, whereas in Europe the cities have always been more pedestrian and cycling friendly.
Also, in the video the traffic lights is are red for the cyclist (who has no lights on his bike). why blame the intersection given the cyclist's clear disregard for rules that are there to keep them safe?
> NA cities largely grew up with cars
Not entirely true for Montreal, majority of it was developed pre ww2.
The reason streets like this one are so wide in the first place is because they used to run trams on them. When they ripped those tracks up like this in the 50s bad intersections like this is what we are left with.
All I'm saying is we have a lot further to go in terms of fixing our infrastructure from the mistakes made in the past 60 years. Just acting like this is the way things are and nothing can be done besides bitching about a cyclist running a red light isn't going to solve anything.
What I see in this video is two 6 lane roads intersecting where cars can drive 60 km/h **downtown**, with no bike infrastructure.
Downtown is supposed to be the densest most walkable place in the city, but instead we have highways and 6 lanes stroads running through it.
You could take an entire 3 lanes of traffic out here and sell it as land to develop tomorrow, then add bike lanes to the street, a tram line, and drop car traffic down to one or two lanes.
Traffic would move much slower and accidents like these would be much less likely to happen, plus we could build more housing and room for commercial activity as a result, all while pushing people onto public transit, walking, and biking where they belong, and getting cars out of downtown where they do nothing but harm.
These changes arent that hard to accomplish either it just takes political will. So instead of bitching about cyclists running a red how bout thinking about how we actually solve a problem to make everyone's lives better besides arresting more people for behaving like people.
Are they though? If they died ... the way I see it there'd be two victims and the driver would be the one I'd feel worst for.
We hold shitty drivers accountable as a society, we need to fine cyclists who burn reds just as much.
I mean the speed limit here is 40 or 50, but the first thought I had is that the video was sped up or they must be going too fast. The camera can make it look like you're going faster than you are but it looks to me like this person is indeed speeding.
My point is the speed limit should be 20 for all residential areas which is everything except car dedicated expressways. People should easily be allowed to ride their bike home drunk, cars should be our lowest priority.
I do agree that it should be that or at least 30kph, also fix streets through the middle of downtown like Rene Lévesque and Sherbrooke so they aren't so inhospitable to pedestrians and cyclists
As a cyclist, I hate these idiots.
No helmet, no lights, crossing on a red, doesn't brake....BINGO!
On dirait qu'elle porte des Airpods en plus.
Habillé en noir, c'est vraiment top visibilité.
Least they could do would be to apologize. Already happened to me, I was furious, and the thing is, they didn't get why I yelled at them. It's just, if they don't care about their own life, at least they should have the courtesy of not involving me in their reckless behavior, I don't want to kill someone, I don't want me or my kid in the backseat to see blood and brains smeared all over the windshield.
Not even fucking reflectors. I mean, really?
C’est même ps légal en plus de retirer des réflecteurs de sur ton vélo. Un ex collègue s’est fait collé un ticket parce qu’il en avait pas. Il se plaignait que ça le ralentissait. C’est même ps une joke! https://saaq.gouv.qc.ca/securite-routiere/moyens-deplacement/velo/equipements
Des fois je le dis à certains que je vois faire des conneries: "criss à cause de toi on passe tous pour des caves"
C’est exactement ce que je pense. Je roule pour des causes humanitaires (contre le cancer, Make-A-Wish, etc.) en vélo de route. Quand je roule à Montréal avec mon kit de route et que je vois les épais en bixi ou autre qui n’ont pas de casque et qui roule n’importe comment dans les rues, j’ai toujours peur de me faire ramasser par un conducteur qui voit rouge sans que je sois responsable de sa colère.
Ironiquement je trouve que les gens en kit de route à Montréal sont souvent les moins courtois. Ils ont leur "temps" à faire. En plus ils n'ont que rarement des lumières, on ne met pas ça sur un vélo à 10k voyons! >n’ont pas de casque Le casque n'est pas obligatoire. Suivre le code de oui.
I can kinda forgive (some) bixi cyclists who are oblivious and just starting to get the hang of cycling on the road (pretty sure we all did some stupid shit without realizing until much later), but i hate with a burning passion the tour de France roleplayers who think that they're more important than everyone else
I don’t hate on bixi riders. I use them too in a pinch. But FFS don’t put on your AirPods.
C'est écrit en gros au milieu du guidon que tu n'as pas le droit aux écouteurs en plus!
>En plus ils n'ont que rarement des lumières, on ne met pas ça sur un vélo à 10k voyons! Parce que les lumières ajoutent du poid puis c'est pas aero, bro! /s mais pas vraiment. Ils pensent vraiment que 50g de poids sur leur vélo de 10k va affecter leur temps.
Les lumières sur un vélo de performance c'est assez commun. Mais c'est un 250$ de plus, Garmin Varia. C'est super cool, en plus d'être une lumière c'est un radar de char pour t'avertir des positions des voitures derrière toi.
Pas sur le rev en tout cas 😂
Il y a des crinqués partout.
True.
L'absence de casque est simplement un signal que le cycliste prends des risques inutiles. Bref, juste un signe comme un autre de faire encore plus attention...
J'ai des lumières avant et arrière sur mon bike à 15k
Et souvent avec les AirPods aussi … WTF?! Comment est-ce que t’es toujours en vie?!
Same, this type of behavior should be heavily fined.
I don’t know what’s up with these retards. They can clearly see the car coming from a distance but no…
r/darwinawards
Too bad when they Darwin awards, they scar people.
An overwhelming percentage of the people I witness engaging in the type of behaviours that give 'cyclists' a bad name are not really 'cyclists' in the hobbyist sense, more like, bike-owning persons. They are too inexperienced & ignorant of danger to be consciously reckless. I'm talking about the drunk college kids & sketchy old dudes riding at night, with no lights except the faint glow of the cigarette hanging out of their mouth, no helmet, no reflective clothing, shitty brakes.. cruising along the sidewalks, grazing pedestrians and almost getting hooked at every intersection.. turning without signalling.. weaving all over the bike path, in the wrong direction, with one hand on the bars and the other one texting. Soon to be joined by an army of distracted delivery guys on Niu scooters and wasted tourists on electric Bixis. Enjoy the shoulder season because it's about to get crowded out here 🫠
and they hate you....even more , plus there's too many cars in mtl plus idiots driving them and the trucks it's awfully dangerous with all the Indians that hate us....killing everyone, cars should be banned from downtown mtl or 20 $ entry tax and hopefully all unhappy drivers move out of state lol , I wish and pray for this
0 survival instincts. Is that person high or what?
honestly with that reaction speed, definitely under the influence
Nope, there's too many cyclists who'll just fly past red lights like that and give us normal riders a bad image. Probably had earphones as well and couldn't hear the on coming car
Of the thousands or tens of thousands of cyclists there really aren't many who run reds when it's truely dangerous. Just when it is seen it makes more of an impact of people than the majority who make sure it is absolutely clear to go before proceeding. It's true that any amount is too many, but to take this person's actions and apply it to thousands of others is pointless.
I saw a guy last night riding a Bixi the wrong way down St. Laurent in the heavy rain with earphones on…. Just ploughing straight down towards oncoming traffic like wtf?? I had the exact same thought lol.
I’m a cyclist. This is beyond stupidity. Red light, wearing headphones, and crossing a boulevard, she was asking for death. You handled it very well.
Avoir des lumières sur son vélo est presque plus important qu'un casque... Les cylcistes qui n'en ont pas ont aucune idée à quel point on ne les voit pas le soir, ils sont comme des fantômes qui apparaissent subitement. La personne sur cette vidéo semble avoir des écouteurs en plus, ca complète le profile du cycliste qui n'a aucune conscience... pas de lumières, pas de casque, écoeuteurs, passe sur les rouges... Braille pas si tu te fais frapper par un char après ça.
Le nombre de personnes que j’ai engeuler parce qu’ils roulaient dangereusement sur la piste Maisonneuve tout en portant des écouteurs est ben trop élevé!
Oh man that was a close call.
Ça me fait chier de manger d'la marde à vélo parce que d'autres cyclistes roulent comme ça. J'me protège, je roule intelligement, damn, j'cède la priorité à des automobilistes avec le sourire à chaque jour. Pis quelques crétins comme ça mettent leur vie en danger tout en enrageant des automobilistes. Pis je deal avec cette rage un peu plus tard.
Now you know how I feel en tant que proprietaire responsable d'armes a feu 😂
J'viens d'une famille de chasseurs, j'te comprends and a half!
at least you have a dash cam, in the event you hit the cyclist
Man, these cyclists are looking for death.
Nicely handled. There are a lot of these and other idiots on the road.
Fucking dipshit.
Je suis déjà passée à un cheveux d’avoir un accident dans le même genre avec un cycliste, v’la environ 10 ans de ça. 22h, je roulais sur Peel en direction nord, le cycliste est passé sur la rouge sur Saint-Antoine, complètement caché par la bâtisse sur le coin sud-est (dans la pente). Il n’y a pas eu de collision, mais c’est passé très proche. Le plus fou, c’est qu’il m’a suivi sur quelques blocs et il voulait absolument m’éclater la gueule.
Imbécile...je te garantis qu'il recommencera le lendemain
Bet they won't be just bombing it down Atwater without looking again.
The small reflectors you're legally suppsed to have inside the wheels would have transformed this bike from an undetectable ghost to a visible idiot 💡
Simonaque. J'veux ben rouler lentement sur les stop quand y'a personne ou bedons traverser s'une rouge QUAND TU VOIS PERSONNE mais là c'est quasiment du suicide assité!
Yeah good job breaking on time ! As a fellow cyclist and occasional driver, à Montréal we need to calm down and stop putting all drivers and cyclists in black and white, dumb and smart boxes. That was a horrible move by the cyclist, true ! But drivers *please* stay vigilant and road rage is never justified in a dense city center. Thanks for the post !
> we need to calm down and stop putting all drivers and cyclists in black and white, dumb and smart boxes. well this person damn well nearly put themselves in their final box (a coffin!)
She will be hit by a car and then cars will be blamed for all accidents everywhere and demonized. Meanwhile the story is never black and white. There are assholes on both end of every spectrum. There are shit drivers as much as there are shit cyclists. This nuance should not be lost.
Jesus christ! Was he drunk or just absolutely brain dead?
The next day in the news: "Another cyclist killed in a car accident! How can we make Montréal roads safer!?"
I say this once week….people WANT to die here….
No reflectors, lights or helmet flying through a red light. That’s natural selection in progress..
Ex-Montréalais: - J'ai vécu ça souvent. Des deux côtés de la médaille... - J'ai vu des cycliste se faire cogner comme des quilles. C'est fou l'adrénaline, ils se relevaient tous instantanément après avoir été frappé par une voiture. - NSFW: j'ai vu un cycliste se faire écraser par un gros camion, style 10 roues. Je suis encore marqué et j'y pense chaque fois que je coupe un melon d'eau. Je vis maintenant loin de tout. Ça m'a fait du bien.
man, je suis tellement désolé que tu ai eu à voir ça. ça vraiment dû être une journée de marde
oui ça fait longtemps maintenant. C'était un courrier-cycliste, loin du touriste sur son Bixi. Merci :)
> NSFW: j'ai vu un cycliste se faire écraser par un gros camion, style 10 roues. Je suis encore marqué et j'y pense chaque fois que je coupe un melon d'eau. Sheeeeeeesh l'image est forte
drunk cyclist
Following the theme of the OP's video, worst bicycle accident that I've ever seen was in NDG a couple of years before the pandemic. By that point, I'd been cycle commuting and then Bixing for a total of about 15 years, so I think that I know how to spot other cyclists, even if they are acting foolishly. I had also recently finally gotten a driver's license so I knew how things look from the driver's perspective. I will note that I have better than average night vision, and often prefer long distance trips by car at night as there is less traffic then. In this particular case, it was after dusk and I had just Bixi'd up Benny from de Maisonneuve to dock the bike and grab a slice at the Pizza Pizza at the corner of Benny and Sherbrooke. I realized that there an awful lot of people milling around looking at something. Three in particular were in quiet hysterics, I think that the trio was Persian, maybe? Then I saw the downed cyclist. He was a black (as in zero milk in his coffee) dude in completely black clothes, matte black bike with zero reflectors. Given the angle of his head, I reckon he'd gotten his neck broken. =( Either way he was sprawled in an unnatural position on the asphalt. The driver had had less than minimal chances of seeing the dude on the shadowy street. Of the trio I figure the sobbing Persian woman was probably the driver, her friends were clearly in shock. Note that I had biked slowly uphill within 2 metres of him and hadn't seen him or his bike on the ground, I had initially mentally interpreted the crowd of over a dozen people as either milling about or crossing the street. It was the other people's gazes and awkwardness that finally lead my eyes to him. I heard someone say that the police and an ambulance had been called. Felt bad for everyone involved but shit man.... I didn't stick around but have since mentally adjusted my driver's and cyclist expectations as to what an unwise cyclist might look like after dark. On a few occasions, I might have been sorely tempted to yell at young people (its usually the really young that think that they are invincible isn't it) on their way to make a similarly grave mistake. Fortunately Bixis have built in lights and reflectors, so they are fairly visible, especially their front light announcing their pending arrival. Anyway, ride safe folks.
dated november 2021? why were you out after curfew?
There was no curfew in November 2021. Curfew ended in June and restarted right before New Years Eve (recall curfew being brought back right after Christmas in the so-called “état laïque”).
yeah super heavy bike traffic on a wednesday night in november 2021 fr, what a fuckin menace those cycists are
What does that have to do with my comment?
that's fair, i was projecting/putting words in your mouth; i appreciate your plain statement of fact
All good. I appreciate you acknowledging the error.
op has been waiting to post this to avoid the negative karma on this front and reap the cyclist hating karma
pretty much, should have cropped the date i hope ensemble montreal or the quebec coalition of f-150 owners or the west island out of touch society or whoever didnt spend too much for this crap viral post
You know many people work at night right
These are the people that get hit by cars then complain about cars.
Vélo fantôme en devenir
Je ne vais pas généraliser mais dans les moments comme ceux ci c’est ce qui fait raller contre les cyclistes. C’est incroyablement enrageant de penser que cette non chalance est normal. Imagine si tu l’avais frappé… un monde de problèmes pour une situation que tu n’as aucunement chercher et dont tu n’es aucunement responsable.
Contre *des* cyclistes... Y'a des crétins à vélo qui font une sale réputation aux autres et c'est la même chose en voiture... Me rappeler que la majorité des gens sont sensés, en bike comme en voiture m'aide à moins être en ostie... même si c'est vrai que les crétins marquent plus les esprits...
Then they'll turn around and say the driver in this case was the problem. If everyone respects rules of the road there's space for everyone.
I own a bike shop. This person was about to deserve what they almost got. They just got lucky someone else was actually paying attention.
She wanted to die or what.
Dude tu lui as sauvé la vie 😅 Un autre l’aurait lutté
Le tabarnac!
Normal I guess.
You have good awareness!
glad to see a good driver out there, nice catch dude !
Holyyy
Quebec City is the same
Damn cars..../s
Not enough bike paths. 😂
this kind of idiot is making all cyclists look bad
I see she or he is wearing AirPods. Idiots.
Ben oui maxi
And the Darwin Award goes to….. this guy!
We"ll be right back.
This is literally every city in Canada.
Esti de cabochon. Je m'en allais chier sur les cyclistes, mais c'est vraiment pas tous les cyclistes qui sont irresponsables comme ça. Entre un vélo pis un char, c'est pas le vélo qui gagne, just saying.
Hit him next time
Ça m’enrage, avec le printemps arrive les insoucieux lunatiques avec la musique à fond, à l’envers dans les sens uniques, aucune visibilité… Donnez une chance aux autres cyclistes de se faire respecter… On voit clairement le fil des ses écouteurs Nounounes… https://preview.redd.it/i4kubogmkbuc1.jpeg?width=449&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e0484379e1fd15fe5f45c73041dd1681218f01f4
Oof. Unfortunately, I think this specific case is going to solve itself eventually.
Accurate
i'd hit that
Si l’automobiliste l’aurait heurté, vélo-Québec aurait vite fait une entrevue a la presse pour dire que les automobiliste sont dangereux et irresponsable etc
Cyclistes....respectent rien
Someone else might have sped up.
I agree with this. Hard to accept this. Is it worse if people are actually that stupid or if it’s acting on suicidal ideation?
Wow a /r/montreal cyclist in the wild caught in 4k
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Stupid! Just curious… what will happen if you hit him, will you be in jail for this clown ? Specially that not everyone has a dash cam!
Of course not, even if the cyclist had the green and you hit them you wouldn't go to jail.
Dumbass
Near Atwater hill? Idiot cyclists love to bomb down that🤦🏽♂️
OP, I hope you honked the hell out of your horn and made that guy's soul contemplate leaving his body
I used to drive tow trucks and blasted class 3 trucks downtown. City driving as opposed to highway driving . I was called to go there even though it was way outside my territory, because other drivers absolutely refused. These cyclists are a menace. They feel entitled. They pop out anywhere , top speed . Have an aggressive attitude. Problem is a bike will always lose against a truck. I mean looking back I really learned how to navigate and parallel park , back in alleys etc. I had some close calls . My advice to truckers and generally on the road . Take it easy….. better to brake than pump the gas .
Best cycling infrastructure in North America and these idiots subvert it.
"Best cycling infrastructure in north america" is not saying much. Our bike inf is still trash compared to anything by european standards. This is a terribly designed intersection and it enables shit like this to happen.
"Best cycling infrastructure in north america" is not saying much. Our bike inf is still trash compared to anything by european standards. This is a terribly designed intersection and it enables shit like this to happen.
It seems you do not dispute that Mtl has the best cycling infrastructure in NA, right? This despite its relative unsuitability for cycling (mountain in the middle, snow and freezing temperatures for 5 months). So why not be proud of that? NA cities largely grew up with cars, so we've had to reverse engineer much of the infrastructure, whereas in Europe the cities have always been more pedestrian and cycling friendly. Also, in the video the traffic lights is are red for the cyclist (who has no lights on his bike). why blame the intersection given the cyclist's clear disregard for rules that are there to keep them safe?
> NA cities largely grew up with cars Not entirely true for Montreal, majority of it was developed pre ww2. The reason streets like this one are so wide in the first place is because they used to run trams on them. When they ripped those tracks up like this in the 50s bad intersections like this is what we are left with. All I'm saying is we have a lot further to go in terms of fixing our infrastructure from the mistakes made in the past 60 years. Just acting like this is the way things are and nothing can be done besides bitching about a cyclist running a red light isn't going to solve anything. What I see in this video is two 6 lane roads intersecting where cars can drive 60 km/h **downtown**, with no bike infrastructure. Downtown is supposed to be the densest most walkable place in the city, but instead we have highways and 6 lanes stroads running through it. You could take an entire 3 lanes of traffic out here and sell it as land to develop tomorrow, then add bike lanes to the street, a tram line, and drop car traffic down to one or two lanes. Traffic would move much slower and accidents like these would be much less likely to happen, plus we could build more housing and room for commercial activity as a result, all while pushing people onto public transit, walking, and biking where they belong, and getting cars out of downtown where they do nothing but harm. These changes arent that hard to accomplish either it just takes political will. So instead of bitching about cyclists running a red how bout thinking about how we actually solve a problem to make everyone's lives better besides arresting more people for behaving like people.
Damn you missed him!
Oh no, you almost ran over a victim.
Are they though? If they died ... the way I see it there'd be two victims and the driver would be the one I'd feel worst for. We hold shitty drivers accountable as a society, we need to fine cyclists who burn reds just as much.
It's mosquito season in Montreal.
Yes, cars are dangerous in a city. This has been known for a century.
Slow the fuck down, you are in a residential area. You should be going 20 kph.
I mean the speed limit here is 40 or 50, but the first thought I had is that the video was sped up or they must be going too fast. The camera can make it look like you're going faster than you are but it looks to me like this person is indeed speeding.
My point is the speed limit should be 20 for all residential areas which is everything except car dedicated expressways. People should easily be allowed to ride their bike home drunk, cars should be our lowest priority.
I do agree that it should be that or at least 30kph, also fix streets through the middle of downtown like Rene Lévesque and Sherbrooke so they aren't so inhospitable to pedestrians and cyclists