Reporting a Driver in the Bike Lane (for the City to Ignore)

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Just another day of a driver blocking the bike lane in North Park. This time, it's a guy in a pickup truck waiting for his buddy. Never mind that that there's a parking lot like 20 feet away.
I used the ‪@TheCityofSanDiego‬'s GetItDone app to do this. It takes a couple of minutes, between taking a photo, uploading it, then entering a license plate number, the type and color of the car, the type of violation, etc. In theory, the city can take this information, and issue the person a ticket. But will they do that?
Thanks for watching.
These videos can be scary, but please know that my goal isn't to deter people from riding bikes in San Diego, but to show the real-world conditions. Sometimes it's pleasant, sometimes it's just fine, and other times there's tension and conflict.
The roads in San Diego should be safe and accessible to everyone without the use of a car. My hope is that these videos help those in power make better decisions for all our safety. I also believe that the more people who decide to ride, the safer the roads will become.
Please remember to support your local bike safety and mobility advocacy organizations, like BikeSD (bikesd.org/), the San Diego County Bike Coalition (sdbikecoalition.org/) and Circulate San Diego (www.circulatesd.org/)

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2 июл 2024

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@theesnodgrass 5 дней назад

This would be a great revenue stream for the city. Mail them a $300 ticket. You’re doing all the work for the city - it’s free money!

@shawnamelva583 5 дней назад

Amazing how brazen people are now. The curb is red too.

@doskraut День назад

I'm in orange county and people like that dont care as cops will do nothing, in my town the city officials have stated cyclist is a low priority.

@HAL69000 14 часов назад

Gosh, no idea how all four of his tires got slashed...

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 7 часов назад

I've never slashed a tire. It's a bridge too far for me, but I understand when folks get to that point.

@zekeigtos7240 4 дня назад

I get what you are doing, its a good thing, but myself I never confront strangers about misbehavior. Just too many crazy people out there, you could be assaulted or worse.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

I understand where you're coming from, @zekeigtos7240. For the most part, I agree. In this case, I felt like there was little chance of danger. If this guy had gotten out of his car, he would have had to contend with folks watching from the cafe, and also me getting off my bike. The assumption that people on bikes are helpless would be incorrect.

@chiuwy3212 6 дней назад

It's incredible how shameless they are about it. They know they are in the wrong and still whine and moan. I've had to go around a car in the bike lane on a road that has a speed limit of 45 MPH by my work. It's an industrial park and there is free parking literally everywhere and they still park their car in the bikelane.

@emilyyost 6 дней назад

Normalize reporting bike lane parking violations 👏🏼 I dont think this is an overreaction. I know I would kinda feel like a Karen, but we fight hard to get these bike lanes and we should all report it for cyclist safety, otherwise moterists will eventually just say "meh, I'll just park in the bike lane, cyclist can just go around, nobody cares, and the city wont ticket me". The more we report these incidents, the more pressure we put on the city to enforce keeping cars out the bike lane.

@sttaylor215 4 дня назад

Until San Diego fully protects these lanes to the point that it damages the vehicle if they attempt to park in them this will continue to happen fines or not

@DeadCat-42 4 дня назад

Around here cars in bike lane is like a call for a flash mob of bmx kids using them as ramps and riding overtop. Park in the bike lane and expect your car to be totaled. Also expect as much police protection for your illegally parked car as they give cyclists . None at all.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

Where is this magical place where kids are biking in mobs?

@DeadCat-42 4 дня назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiegoSW Ohio, started during COVID.

@jonerving3843 4 дня назад

So basically the dude snitched and wanted the city to help him lol life don't work that way buddy

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

I get so confused by people like you. Would you rather people on bike just break windows? What do you mean "live don't work like that"? Did you know that in NYC, you can video a truck idling, which gets the city to issue a ticket and it pays the person who took the video? People make thousands of dollars a year holding silly drivers accountable. Seems to work just fine.

@jonerving3843 4 дня назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiego I guess man. I just have way too much going on to be reporting people for no reason. You simply could ride your bike around the idiot but instead you want to hold him "accountable"

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 3 дня назад

@jonerving3843 Normally, I'm with you, and I have places to be. Part of why I did this was to really time how long it takes to make a report. I've stopped and made reports when trees and bushes the city is responsible for are overgrown, or when there's a bunch of glass that needs to be cleaned up on the road. But you have "accountable" in quotes, as if it's not a real thing. This is why drivers feel free to do whatever they want. It needs to stop.

@jonerving3843 День назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiego nah man we are not the same. I don't go around making reports to the city about any and everything. People have jobs to do that, do you wait outside bars to call police at all the drunk patrons who walk outside and drive as well?

@RidingBikesinSanDiego День назад

@jonerving3843 Since you asked, I don't report everything. This is an unusual thing for me to do, and I explain that. But I'm more interested in how your argument seems to hinge on suggesting that those driving drunk are just fine, which is a strange argument. I hope that you and everyone you're close to don't have to deal with being hit by drunk drivers.

@5ivenineteen 4 дня назад

If I had a dollar for every bike rider I saw disobeying the traffic laws, not using signals, or driving head on into traffic I wouldn’t have to work. You guys are a bit of PIA yourselves. You’d think being on a bicycle you’d be more careful around cars. Like people who cross the street w/o looking.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

So, because people on bikes disobey traffic laws (though, lots of drivers don't seem to know about basic laws on the road anyway), that means drivers can just do what they want too? You under the differences between a car and bike, right?

@5ivenineteen 4 дня назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiego no, dude. It’s more about throwing rocks when you live in glass houses. It’s not tit for tat. We have enough of that BS in politics. It’s about not acting 100% innocent and educating your brethren that they do share the road and considering the difference between car and bike, the bicyclists should be more careful. Just like crossing a street w/o looking both ways. Just because you have the light doesn’t mean a person driving can’t have an accident.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 3 дня назад

@5ivenineteen There are no accidents, dude. I'd love to "be more careful" and just ride in my bike lane, but drivers make that difficult. Defend people in cars all you'd like, but drivers take far more of the public space at the expense of of the safety of others. It's by design, and it's constantly abused.

@5ivenineteen 3 дня назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiego just use your hand signals and obey the traffic laws. And, I’m not sure where you are, but accidents happen everyday around here.

@MontagnaMagica 6 дней назад

Would you ever find out if they follow up on the report?

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 5 дней назад

They city will likely close the report in a few days or weeks. I'll have to follow up with my the councilmember for more information, but the city is really bad at enforcement.

@tangiers365 День назад

good job, only idiots block bike lanes

@kitchencarvings4621 5 дней назад

When they curse and threaten, say, "Tell it to the judge, buddy."

@swlightn 6 дней назад

Bollards cannot prevent illegal parking. So sad.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 5 дней назад

What we have here aren't bollards (which are buried in the ground and very much stop cars when drivers hit them). These flimsy pieces of garbage are flex posts, that cost the city something like $150 each to replace when they get battered by drivers.

@swlightn 5 дней назад

Okay. Somehow, City of San Diego installed a lot recently. It cannot protect cyclist properly.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 5 дней назад

@swlightn For sure! Realistically, I don't think the city's goal is to protect cyclists (in most places). They're trying to do the bare minimum so as to not inconvenience drivers too much. The city will slow-roll every project, unless people die (like in the case of Pershing). Even when people die, like on Washington, they half-ass it.

@bikertime1 6 дней назад

Next time say there is a bag of cocaine in the back.

@bikertime1 6 дней назад

Dang, that's a plan. You need a backpack full of coke and toss it in the bed of trucks that do that. Then, call it in.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 6 дней назад

Ha!

@DeadCat-42 4 дня назад

Get a bmx and ride overtop..

@kitchencarvings4621 5 дней назад

It's so tempting to let the air out of all four tires. But I would never do that. Here's how I deal with it. If I see a car parked in the bike lane, I check for a gap behind me, signal, and move over. I take the primary position if the lane is less than 14 ft. wide. If there are more cars up ahead in the bike lane, I stay in the primary until there is a long stretch without parked cars. I'm not going to weave back and forth.

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

I'm also not one who engages in the mischief of letting air out of tires. So, funny thing about this bike lane: had I stayed in the main travel lane and kept going straight, the bike lane goes away on the next block, and is in accessible on the block after that, because of construction projects. When those are complete, I think the city will go back and actually "complete" the bike lane. Whether or not they make it so cars can't access it is another story.

@thisisnotmyrealname9049 4 дня назад

lol get a life

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 4 дня назад

My life is happier because I bike instead of driving. Thanks for watching!

@ryobiman 5 дней назад

Cars & commercial vehicles paid for the roads with taxes. Bikes don’t pay for 💩

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 5 дней назад

@ryobiman You don't know how taxes and public funding works.

@ryobiman 5 дней назад

@@RidingBikesinSanDiego get a motorcycle and stop being a crybaby

@RidingBikesinSanDiego 5 дней назад

@ryobiman I think I'll just keep biking, but thanks for watching.

@DeadCat-42 4 дня назад

Get a bmx and ride over top. Cars in bike lanes are an opportunity to stunt ride.

@Dnizzle7 4 дня назад

Do cyclist not also work and pay income and property taxes? You do know your federal gas tax is a flat amount and not a scaling percentage right? And you do know it hasn't changed since 1996 right? So that means your federal gas tax, adjusted for inflation should be double what it is today. So you could make the argument, that cyclists pay MORE than their fair share when it comes to road infrastructure, especially how they don't do nearly as much damage to the road as your 10000LB SUV. Makes ya think