Went out for a fairly pleasant if cold mid-afternoon #cycle in #London

Noticed a lot of drivers with automatic transmission & therefore a free hand on their mobiles in the slow-moving traffic. I mean, I only drive autos coz I only drive once or twice per year, but this makes me think the decline of the manual transmission together with the rise of the mobile phone is a bad thing.

Also, I mean, do you need to be so wedded to your phone? Try mindfulness

#cycling #crapDriving

I really do try to believe that most* drivers aren't careless about the lives of others, but rather clueless. That's why I put together videos from my handlebar camera to show, from a bicyclist's perspective, what their driving looks and feels like.

The video here is a sample of dangerous--egregiously dangerous--overtakes by motorists over the course of a year.

#BikeTooter #ClosePass #CrapDriving #SafeStreetsForAll #VisionZero #RoadSafety

https://urbanists.video/w/rXpdJpCkhPvhsGBHDQ1Kyk

*I said most.

This guy. Just ever-so-nonchalantly rolls the stop sign and then overtakes my kid and me in the middle of an intersection as we biked home from school.

You wouldn't do this to someone in a car. Don't do it to someone on a bike.

https://urbanists.video/w/81aVpz8c2wfCnHJRMjnp3e

#BikeTooter #CrapDriving #StopSign #KidsOnBikes #SafeStreetsForAll