i sas as i did before: ticketing these people seems like easy revenue for cops... i just don't get it.

Compromise is the reason the federal emissions standards haven't been reviewed in decades, as global warming is just a "myth"....try being polite with an SUV driver...who has to fill up every day...and is angry anyway.....cops and troopers around here target racially and otherwise, and there are quotas...NY state just passed a law stating law enforcement not responsible for any irrational acts committed.....elderly get off, when they hit an occupied, parked car, with not even a warning, and in at least three ocassions I have personally seen in the past few months, gone onto an interstate the WRONG WAY!!!! I guess it is okay if you are elderly, and as long as you don't hit someone.....but then again, with our antiquated infrastructure and transportation systems, how can elderly get around??? and it will get worse....my town has one day a year to support bicycling, yet the busiest part of town has no sidewalks. People here in my small upstate NY town DO get hit in crosswalks, and on bikes, usually by downstaters coming up with big SUVS with a pompous, condescending attitude....who then proceed to say what is missing from a small town...they proceed to buy up a whole county, with several hundred acre spreads, and then proceed to stop wind farms, by picketing, signs, hiring lawyers, because it might ruin their precious view.....they have money to pay more for groceries, gas, and screw the environment...they can turn their A/C higher.....the farmers, once again, get the raw deal.....this is about as civil as I can get when I see the future getting trashed....and paying for our denial, excesses, and stubbornness.....

The NYPD are too busy waiting at the curb for the "hot" light at the Krispy Kreme store to light up.

i selected the 'note or friendly chat'
but, i'd like to point out, the friendly chat is potentially dangerous. people like to park in bike lanes, expecially if they are in a huge vehicle - they can't fit in parking spaces in those hideous things!

Vandalism is never going to be the answer. As a recent convert to being environmentally responsible, I can tell you that when I was more resistant to these types of ideas, my thinking only became more entrenched when I ran into what I considered zealotry. And vandalism definitely qualifies.

I assume we've made sure that the stickers in question don't damage paint on cars. I think post-it notes, or something slid under a windshield wiper, are a fantastic way to raise awareness. But going beyond that only hurts the cause in the long run.

in a perfect world, we wouldn't need the police to enforce this kind of thing and friendly reminders would be accepted as such. as it is, the cops haven't made it to a single event i phoned in including an assault (paperwork at the hospital), a hit and run accident (phone call from desk jockey more than 24 hours later), or a burglary (paperwork in the mail).

so regardless of how we vote here, i said friendly reminder, the reality is that the cops are busy looking for undocumented residents and supervising war protesters - i mean violent criminals.

It depends on the situation. If you continuously run into the same SUV parked in the bike lane, then a sticker would do fine, but if you only see the car once, perhaps you should carry some post-its and a pen with you.

I don't think breaking the law would fix the situation in most cases, but I won't say all, because there are some extreme situations. On a larger scale, protests, marches, blogging, "voting with your wallet," etc. would probably work fine - just look at Treehugger!

I think an irrational approach would be to actually vandalize the car by doing actual damage to it (not that I haven't thought about doing that!). However, I don't see putting a sticker—easily removed with a bit of elbow grease—as something irrational or contributing to some sort of tense standoff between bikers and drivers. I think such a tense standoff exists only in the minds of bikers, and that drivers plain don't know that they are doing something wrong. The sticker is an unforgettable yet harmless (what sticker has adhesive that damages car paint, seriously?) way to shame drivers into thinking about with whom they share the road.

As a long-time commuter cyclist living in a big(ish) city, I've had some pretty bad experiences, including being shouted at, told to get a license, doored, hit, hitting, and falling. I don't see a sticker as unjust.

Given that the moron who parks in a bike lane is probably the same fellow or lady who yells "get off the road biker f@g" or "I'll run you down next time" I sincerely doubt that a "friendly chat" will be seen as anything but a reason to beat the crap out of a pretentious biker. I do not know about other bicyclists, but this 6'2" 200lb rider does not want to get into a fistfight or be shot or stabbed by some redbull-crazed delinquent parker!

A sticker on a window is annoying for any auto-owner, but REALLY easy to take off (water & a rag for a paper sticker, or just use a razor blade!). Given the grief I get for bike commuting every day, I'd be happy, no ecstatic, to give a jerk driver a bit of grief back. Does that mean I am mature? No. But neither are drivers who park in bike lanes. Maybe the 10 minutes it takes to remove a sticker from a window will make them think twice about doing it again!

Thanks for posting this, Treehugger!