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then there's the cycle lanes, is it one way/two way? who knows!
Had this happen in Rotterdam, riding along a 2-way path that at some point became a 1-way. Realised suddenly everyone was riding towards me and I was getting dirty looks so had to bail across the road. R'dam was the nicest city centre to ride through though, lots of space and modern infrastructure and less bike traffic. Utrecht was way busier and worse laid out but generally civil and orderly. Amsterdam looked like a clusterfuck but I didn't ride much in the centre, left my bike on the outskirts and spent the day on foot/tram.
Colonel_of_Truth
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Was in Amsterdam for first time this weekend.
Loved the city, hated riding around it.
It's like the most obnoxious clueless idiots on bikes from my cs7 commutes have been given the keys to the city. Everyone just acts like massive twats and then get pissed off if they're held up for even a brief second. Every interaction between cyclists i saw was one born of aggression, mostly from some idiot riding with their phone in their hand while texting.
then there's the cycle lanes, is it one way/two way? who knows! should you be riding through this junction right now? we're not telling, maybe you go with the pedestrian light, maybe there's a cycle light as well, oh there's nothing, should cars give way to you? probably, but there's no way of telling because it's 50/50 they'll still try to drive around you as you are moving forwards through the junction.
as for turning left. might as well make up your own mind how you want to do it because every fucking junction is different.
You know what would be a really good idea to mix in with all the slow cyclists? that's right! mopeds doing 25mph in the cycle lane, but not only that let's have them act even more entitled to make progress than the cyclists so they constantly tailgate, rev and beep their horns at everyone.
Think I'd rather stick to acting like proper traffic than a pedestrian thanks.