Yeah this city isn’t anti-bike overall, and some neighborhoods have truly impressive biking infrastructure. But many streets/horizontal roads in Manhattan are brutal for bicyclists due to a subset of hyper-aggressive male drivers who are so desperate to feel powerful for just once in their life that they’re willing to risk killing someone in an attempt to bully them off the only legal path offered to bicyclists.
Yeah this city isn’t anti-bike overall, and some neighborhoods have truly impressive biking infrastructure. But many streets/horizontal roads in Manhattan are brutal for bicyclists due to a subset of hyper-aggressive male drivers who are so desperate to feel powerful for just once in their life that they’re willing to risk killing someone in an attempt to bully them off the only legal path offered to bicyclists.