Hunglish.orgWhile bicycles and other vehicles without internal combustion engines may be great for the environment, they can certainly wreak havoc with pedestrian traffic on, say, Rákoczi út.
Written by Scott Savoie
Walking down Rákoczi út or just about any major street in Budapest has become increasingly hazardous recently: Everywhere on the sidewalks are alternative forms of transportation.
People on bikes, rollerblades, skateboards, segways, you name it. Some of us are still walking, which leaves us at a big disadvantage: We’re far too slow.
People on bikes seem to be at the biggest advantage in relation to the amount of damage/injury they can cause to pedestrians before being injured themselves. This allows them to take chances, darting in and around people. „Look at me,” they seem to say, „I am safe on my bicycle oblivious to the injury I can cause by my wreckless showboating!”
Skateboarders are pretty obnoxious as well in the way they share the sidewalk with the rest of us. We are the obstacles in what is left of their glue addled cortexes. We are his moving skateboard park, try not to get in his way. Skateboarders make me want to invent a fourteen-year-after-the fact retroactive abortion pill.
I propose bike lanes to share the space with the bus lanes. Skateboarders get their own lane designation in the middle of boulevards and highways (since they like slaloming and excitement so much).
Darwinism and the law of averages can then work their magic and the sidewalks will once again be safe.