Shame on the police!

Wait. I thought it was our elected officials who are curbing over-policing- especially Massachusetts’s Hands-Free Law.

Just to clarify and to prevent the usual discussion points: there was a driveway right where the car blocked the bike lane. The driver could have easily used the driveway of the building where he picked up somebody and waited for more than 10 min.
This is not a case where some driver had no other choice and had to use this spot to pick up or deliver something.
This just shows that lack of enforcement has taught drivers that they can get away with whatever they want even with police right there.
This lack of enforcement is also more and more apparent by drivers ignoring crosswalks and red lights and forcing pedestrians off the road.

Agreed, without consequence, how do we expect cooperation?

The driveway is private property.

People have to go about their business. Harvard Square is a major dragola. There’s got to be some give and take. Operators of pedaled vehicles are competent enough to go around somebody.

I get that people aren’t perfectly moral and the bike lanes conflict with people living their lives and conducting business.

Bike lanes are helpful without being perfectly inviolable.

@freddy
the driveway was part of the building where the driver had business so he can use it. I agree that there has to be a compromise and a give and take (i hinted at that in my post before). However my larger point was that I see way more drivers park in bike lanes without there being a need to do that as there is often parking within 30 foot. And there are multiple business that use bike lanes as their business parking lot despite them having dedicates parking spots just a few feet away. On JFK street I see many drivers stopping in the bike lane although right next to them is a parking spot. They are just to lazy to pull into the parking spot and rather block the bike lane. That is very annoying and dangerous during rush hour for bikers. All of these cases are not a result of bike lanes cutting off access of businesses or homes from the street. They are a result of lazy drivers knowing that there are no consequences. Even if we revamp the bike lanes to a better compromise with cars and businesses (I think that is necessary), drivers will block the bike lanes that will remain.

Moral and lawful drivers vastly outnumber the scofflaws is the US.

I love how the bike lobby is always giving permission for drivers to use other peoples driveways and parking lots.

It's best to phone this in to CPD. Don't ask a patrol officer to intervene. Making a call generates a record and is harder to ignore.

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