A Toyota owner driving their car down a bike lane was captured on camera by a woman on foot using the cyclist roadway. Ashleigh Toinette (@ashleigh.toinette) outed the driver in a clip she shared online. The video sparked a discussion on driver etiquette and paths reserved for bike commuters.
“So these people don’t realize that they’re on a walking and bike lane, and they’re being rude as [expletive] to us, and there’s a pole right in the middle of it,” she says, turning her camera around to reveal the pole in question, which is fixed to the ground. It looks like a plastic unit that the driver would either have to drive over or swerve to the left to avoid.
Toinette continued: “They can’t even get out. It’s really funny. Must suck to be them. Let’s see." Following this, she continues to record herself, and the driver indeed pulls to the left to wedge the Toyota crossover through the space between the end of the bike lane and a vehicle parked beside it.
"Oh, they’re gonna hit somebody else’s car. Wow, really intelligent,” she tells her viewers. Behind the woman, a man sitting in the front seat shouts, “Thanks” out of the window, which prompts Toinette to repeat, loudly and to the car driving behind her, “Really intelligent!”
