Friday Cartoon: Keeping you safe

Almost seems like the message is that cyclists are getting special rights.

I interpret it as a statement about about the paranoia in our culture surrounding cycling and how ostensibly dangerous it is, when driving is just as if not more so, and automobiles and the way in which our auto culture operates are what cause most transit-related danger.

Reminds me that Kidical Mass is tomorrow!
http://kidicalmasspdx.org/

Hilarious and topical!

Car-centric. WTF Johnathan?

Yeah, it took me awhile to get the joke here; that despite all the concern being expended on how safe bikes are to be riding around…and many of the opinion they’re not safe to be riding around in traffic, the reality is that it’s the motor vehicles that are crashing into each other…and nailing the occasional cyclist (check the cartoon closely, or enlarge it…there’s one in the pile!).

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I saw a woman pulling 2 kids on trailer behind her moped… on a small flat bed trailer with no back guard, and both kids holding giant umbrellas! I think PDX has way to many unstable parents, but more regulation… who needs it.

Lots of different ways to interpret this cartoon, depending upon one’s perspective. I like it.

I like it, too.

I see a politician telling a man on a bike towing his child that his actions are dangerous– but ignoring the elephant in the room in the form of all the vehicles that crash every year. There’s no data that shows kids in trailers/on trail-a-bikes/in bike seats are in danger of death or injury, but there’s a lot of data about the dangers of motorized vehicles. Which no one has the guts to take on.

Maybe it’s funny because the cyclist just dosen’t see the dangers in front of him, like the bike in the middle of the wreck.
Still not that funny though, wrecked school bus, dead children, no ambulance… not funny