Message to car drivers
July 1st, 2004
If you're in a car, and you're trying to get into Antwerp these days, please remind this:
The bicyclists are not responsible for your 45-minutes traffic jam.
On the contrary, if they weren't there, you would've had a 1-hour traffic jam at least. So please don't push us in the gutter, block the bicycle path, or threaten to run us over. If you really want to release your frustration, drive into a wall or something. I am faster than you (even if you think driving 100km/h for 100 meters is any faster than driving 20km/h on that distance), and I will catch you up.
End of service message -- frustration relieved, thank you.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM I would have stopped if I had known it was you ;-) ... Share your frustration, have experienced it myself too. I end up choosing backroads and small streets to avoid the busy traffic. Works in general.