Cost? More than $3 million.
That’s a dangerous bike lane, if the car turns off the road the bike is right in their blind spot.
Smells like corruption.
Sounds like reta…stupidity is alive and well.
I live in a city with poorly implemented protected lanes and I absolutely feel less visible and less safe in the protected lane when approaching intersections. It is very common for folks in cars making turns to just cut me off so that I have to slam on my brakes to avoid colliding with them. Protected lanes can be much safer, but to do it correctly you have to sacrifice a large chunk of parking near intersections. Car people don’t like to sacrifice those spaces.
I think this is a good point. While you are “protected” behind those parking spaces and shrubbery, you are also less visible. But you are still very much a part of that road system when you come to the end of the block and have to get through the intersection. People crater the same problem by riding on the sidewalk instead of using the bike lanes. They feel safer but I’m not always sure they are safer.
Where I live there are water canals carrying runoff from the nearby foothills into the county water system. These canals do not follow the roads at all and criss cross through our entire city. Some smart person decided to add multi-use trails all along them, so we have a bike lane network that’s off the roads entirely. There are even a couple of elevated bridges built entirely to get the bike trails over major thoroughfares. That’s protected.
And yes, this is in the US 😀
The people need to remove him from office, by force fuck elections. Time to tar and feather these motherfuckers and send them out of town on a rail.
They should replace him with a painted corrupt shit stain instead.
The people need to remove him from office
As well as 4/5 of the city council, as only ONE councilmember voted against it even as 90% of the citizens supported either “no change” or “improve, don’t remove” regarding the protected lanes!
Then most definitely remove, if they are going against the will of the people.
We are now removing sidewalks and instead will be painting sidewalks!
They could just paint the lines the other way so people park going forward instead of backing up, or just replace them with regular perpendicular parking spots and actually add to the bike lane or add trees. So dumb.
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Seems like they overthunk the bike lanes. I think just extra-wide sidewalks work best. If they’re heavily trafficked then they can paint lanes for bikes and pedestrians on them. In my city, the best bike paths are just giant sidewalks that can accommodate fleshy human traffic in general.
I like painted bike lanes. I’ve also noticed that painted lanes are more common in wealthy communities in the US.
This sounds like a local issue. If the majority of taxpayers approve this or at least approve of the mayor, go for it, maybe $3mil is a value choice for them.
There’s been much dumber expenditures.
Personally I’d make it a come grab some brushes, the gov will buy the paint and we’ll make a community painting weekend get together thing, but I’m not quite soulless enough for politics just yet.
