This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It’s not legal, but protests are never useful if they’re fully legal now, are they.
Ride your bike in the park or stay on the sidewalk. Streets are made and paid for by motor vehicle’s.
Cars don’t belong on streets. Paved roads were built for bicycles. It’s time we kicked the cars off the road. Cars should not be allowed in city limits.
Streets are made by motor vehicle’s what now?!
Its illegal to ride on the pavement (or sidewalk) here in the UK (though tbh rarely enforced). Drivers pay “road tax” on their vehicles and a lot believe that pays for the cost of the roads. But it doesn’t. Residential and industrial roads are maintained by the local authority and paid for with council tax. Highways are covered by the Highways Agency and paid for by income tax.
It’s similar in the US. Most jurisdictions ban bicycles from the sidewalks in favor of pedestrians. Roads in towns/cities are paid for typically through property taxes. County roads, highways and freeways are funded through other taxes collected at the various levels.
Downvoting because of your opinion, and also because you can’t spell “motor vehicles”
Streets are paid for by income tax, idiot. You think your meager vehicular taxes are enough?
Streets are paid through tax dollars. Often income, property, and sales tax. Not from car or gasoline tax. :-)
Get fucked.
It’s illegal where I live to ride my bike on a sidewalk (US)
Fuck you.
Meanwhile pedestrians get angry at me for riding on the side walk and tell me to ride in the road, there’s no winning.