From my experience with a different fight in NYC, these people don't give a shit. They have no shame, they only care about their golden kickbacks.

you need to understand, that the murican car industry has made everything unreachable by walking and biking. its a total alien form of transport in newnaziland.

Based on this and a couple recent other threads I am becoming pretty convinced that more and more of the people on Lemmy are children.

Edit: I can admit that I was a dumbass who thought that I could do all the things while driving as a teenager. I am guessing the people downvoting me are either teenagers or people who don’t remember being teenagers.

Careless/reckless driving is entirely normalized in America. Think of the number of people you see speeding, rolling stop signs, blowing through pedestrian crosswalks, speeding up to make the yellow light and "accidentally" running the red. Think of all the people who chat on the phone, attend work meetings, watch videos, do their makeup, and eat entire meals while behind the wheel of a moving car. Think of all the people you've heard essentially bragging about how much they speed, who bemoan all the "slow" people on the road who are just going the posted speed limit, or who feel they're being unfairly targeted when they get a speeding ticket for going ten-over.

Chances are if you've driven a car in America then you yourself are guilty of having done some of those things. I know I certainly am, though I've been intentional about taming my own hubris behind the wheel over recent years. But it's hard to accept that what is normal to you is also wrong or dangerous. Especially in a survivor biased environment like reckless driving culture, where nothing bad generally happens to you until it does and then as people get more reckless the higher the chances are you won't walk away from an accident. And so when you see a post online shaming people for something you do on your way to work every day, you get defensive because to you that's just normal behavior.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not defending these people or their actions, just offering an explanation for OPs question. Still, I expect to get downvoted for the very reason I just articulated.

No, in this case it’s a two way cycle track that takes up exactly one car lane. Before the bike path it was a shoulder, but if they removed the bike path they’d almost certainly turn it into a flex lane like the bottom deck of the bridge.

That being said, I’m sure it would induce demand and cause even more people to commute from Richmond (or worse, far flung suburbs like Antioch) to Marin until traffic is worse. And there’d be no way to bike since bikes aren’t allowed in the car freeway lanes, and there are no alternative routes over the bay.

Also do you have a source for more bikes using it? I’d look it up but am on my phone and too lazy.

It's probably on a hands free mount rolling at the camera angle.

However, it's still illegal to have video playing within view of the driver, so he's still breaking the law

No, it is not legal. This bike path is part of the Bay Trail, which was enacted by State legislation, and served as mitigation for environmental damage done by Caltrans highway work. The BCDC was specifically created by the legislature to ensure maximum feasible public access to the Bay. So voting to close the path violates any number of laws and policies.

As for driving while distracted by the phone...yeah that's also illegal.

Muricans and their cars xD

The solution is obviously that the bikers are to join the daily traffic jam in a car, instead of entirely skipping the queue like selfish bastards.

/s, for the satire-impaired.

They want to scare cyclists into not cycling at all

Cyclists weren’t allowed on the bridge at all until the bike lane, since it was a freeway bridge, so they hope they’ll just go away (and probably encourage them to buy cars or take the once-an-hour bus).