Ahh, the classic “we built this six lane monstrosity of a road for cars and have scraps here, here and here for the legally mandated bike lane that people voted for, but we don’t really want to piss the NIMBYs off. Fuck it, just make it as cheap and inconvenient as possible.”
If the roles were reversed, drivers would be kicking down the door to the mayor, lol.
No. There is no Loss here. I refuse. I refuse
Welcome to Germany!
That might be Switzerland. White frames around traffic lights are not typical for Germany. And the sign itself would likely have a white background instead of a yellow one. Also there is a Molly Malone Pub with a similar typography as the one in the ad in Winterthur, Switzerland.
And yes, it’s a very boring day today
It’s the Schmidtstedter Knoten in Erfurt.
Basically bikes have to go around the intersection as if it was a roundabout
This is made sense pretty much right away for me. It’s like a roundabout, go around to the right until you have your exit.
Congrats. What about everyone else? There are clearly enough people here that this is confusing for it be taken seriously. Especially since this is how cyclists get killed.
Ps. Fuck cars
I suggest everyone else step up their game and learn how to read signs. It really is not a complicated sign. I thought the arrows were enough, but perhaps if the sign were written in crayon it would help.
Ps. Fuck bicycles
For a second I thought we were in the fuckcars community and I couldn’t believe you said fuck bicycles.
I hope you don’t really hate bicycles though. Wonderful mode of transit overall.
Not really, no. I do think the cyclists have the worst sense of entitlement though. I’m down for a better infrastructure to accommodate cycling, but as is, more often than not I see them not obeying the laws of the road, or riding on sidewalks, or slow riding in the middle of the road instead of getting over to the side to give room to pass. Often when I’m running down the nature trail, I will encounter incoming cyclists two wide hogging the trail, and think I’m going to give up my half. I hug the middle line so one of those ungrateful twats has to get over. Also the assholes that don’t alert when they pass. Going down the trail and Johnny Bikeman blows by with no warning, which is extremely inconsiderate, dangerous, and scary. Often the ride with loud music, and that pisses me off to. Put on headphones, nobody wants to hear your trash, Doppler effect music.
Obviously that’s not all cyclists and this is a generalization, (like vegans and CrossFit) but it’s been a notable part of my experiences with them. I have a bike that I use to exercise and train with, and when I go out and ride I make sure to follow the rules and minimize my interference with others. It’s pretty simple.
As someone who cycles as my primary mode of transport for 8 months out of the year, I absolutely empathize with you about bad bicycle riders that endanger others.
Where I live in the US, it’s legal to take as much of the lane as is needed to be safe. Often in the city that means riding in the middle of the lane so that I don’t get doored by parked cars, and sometimes it’s so cars have to completely move into the opposite lane to pass me – usually near intersections – because it’s the safest way for me to avoid getting physically pushed out of my lane. Many drivers don’t give a damn if they push a cyclist off the road or into a curb.
Where I live It seems like most riders don’t alert when passing and it drive me nuts. They should know better.
And finally, in the spirit of fairness, every bad habit you mentioned about cyclists can also be applied to cars, even driving on the damn sidewalk.
It’s not that hard to read from here, but definitely hard to read cycling
Sign or not this is pretty much how cyclists are supposed to cross most big intersections and the inconvenience of it is the reason so many of them break the rules. If you make rules that are too complicated, counterintuitive or inconvenient people will break them.
Hitler seems to still be building the Autobahns
I really appreciate my town’s bike infrastructure. We have protected bike lanes with a berm between cyclists and traffic, as well as bike left turn “boxes” that essentially put you first in line of the cross traffic stopped at a red light.
At first I thought the bottom was just two different deconstructions of the bicycle
I want steakweek
Is this Loss?
The absolute state of…
…German transportation infrastructure?
I don’t speak bikeniese can someone translate?
This bike lane is on the left side, but the bike lanes in the rest of the city are on the right. Someone then thought the best way to connect them is to have them cross 2 streets to get to the bike path leading to the right, and from there take 2 left turns if they want to go left, which also has a separate lane for right turns - just for the cars, of course, so that is another lane bicycles need to cross.
So, depending how the traffic lights work, bicycles have to wait up to 5 times to do a simple left turn. The traffic needs to flow after all, and traffic just means car traffic to some city planners.
They need a sign like this which gets the point across:
This was made by someone who hates bikers and just wants to see them smeared across the pavement
