• 2000mph@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Oh I get it. The top picture is a bike. 🚲 The bottom picture is the same bike after being hit by a 6ft tall SUV while trying to cross that intersection.

  • Wahots@pawb.social
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    2 days ago

    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.

  • lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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.

  • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • saddlebag@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      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

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        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

        • fiercekitten@lemm.eeEnglish
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          2 days ago

          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.

          • BassTurd@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            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.

            • fiercekitten@lemm.eeEnglish
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              2 days ago

              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.