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Fuck your existing lanes and fuck your 1.5-tonne beasts. Make some space, it won't fucking kill you.
I don't ride my bike to work because the only pathways that lead there are filled with cars.
In my city there's always at least 2-3 cyclists a year killed by drivers who intentionally hit them. And the police have only ever found one of the perps.
The irony of the idea that cyclists are "taking lanes" can only come from the mind of a motorist ignorant that roads in North America only started getting paved with smooth asphalt due to a campaign by what is today The League of American Bicyclists. It was only due to the hard work and advocacy of cyclists that roads ever became hospitable to colonization by machines in the first place. If motorists were ever honestly adamant in their demand that no lanes ever be "removed" then it would mean undoing every single car lane.
In an effort to improve riding conditions so they might better enjoy their newly discovered sport, more than 100,000 cyclists from across the United States joined the League to advocate for paved roads. The success of the League in its first advocacy efforts ultimately led to our national highway system.
https://bikeleague.org/about/equity-and-history/
TIL
Car drivers complaining about bike lanes 'reducing capacity' but still drive around with 4 empty seats are fucking morons.
I'm on the bicycle commission for my city, and I'm constantly hounding the engineers for any kind of hardening of their planned class II lanes. They had the gall to say that they didn't like flexi-posts because they got hit and needed replacing too often and we were like "yeah, how do you think the cyclists feel?"
why not design it with sturdier posts that withstand cars?
We can't really control what the city engineers or council do, it's an advisory commission, and something more robust would well exceed the budget that the city has allocated for the project I'm talking about. We're trying to get a win where we can right now, but we've added an agenda item to recommend a minimum standard for bike lanes so that they'll all be built with some kind of hardening.
Suggest moats, then. Only requires a backhoe.
That might actually work in some cases, since a lot of CA cities are criss-crossed with little irrigation canals. Most of what I'm pushing for, though, is putting our streets on a road diet by converting over wide or extra lanes into hardened bike lanes.
Yeah, I bet concrete bollards don't need frequent replacements
In Tokyo the bike lanes are all loading and unloading parking for the large trucks, taxis, and private vehicles. Means you gotta merge into traffic because none of the bike lanes lanes are enforced. I see a lot of cops stopping cyclists to check their registration, but I've never seen them ticket the trucks and taxis illegally parked. Tokyo needs better enforcement and separate bike lanes like Amsterdam (with a physical barrier or different grade from the street), otherwise its really dangerous to bike on streets even with bike lanes.
Say it with me:
Cars do not belong in the city, sensible transit system and infrastructure does
The zero sum game conservative mentality rears its ugly head again to yap some heinous shit.
What kind of sad sack is so anti-bike that they run a whole "no bike lanes" social media account?
My neighborhood is one of the poorer ones, and it's got more people taking bikes than most other places I've seen in LA, yet the only places that get dedicated lanes or bike paths are wealthy areas where I don't even see recreational bikers, let alone those getting to work.
That said, I'm 98% certain my local conservative city council is skimming the coffers, so I'm not expecting much.