• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    It’s basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.

    Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!

    • rcbrk@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      All around Vic, too. They generally don’t even put in a bike lane, just say “use the emergency lane”. Here’s a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

      Onramp with sign declaring bicycles permitted on this freeway

      Further along the onramp, sign saying to form 1 lane

      also on the onramp, yellow diamond sign with bicycle symbol

      sign beside the now-merging lane directing cyclists to ride on the shoulder

      sign at the end of the merge, 110 speed limit.

      This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

      The shoulder is the emergency lane. It’s where drivers pull over into if there’s an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

      • rcbrk@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        There used to be a sign “helping” cyclists already on the freeway by telling them “cross here with care”:

        sign directing cyclists on the freeway to cross the merging lane at a slightly safer location

        But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

        same sign, obliterated by a vehicle

        • WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml
          2·
          1 year ago

          I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.

    • randomivysaur@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      4PWQ2WR3+MQ here’s a plus code for ye (apparently Google’s open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)

    • biddy@feddit.nl
      2·
      1 year ago

      Neither. The highway engineer got told to add a bike lane, said “ugh fine” and scribbled it along the side without thinking about it.

      Nobody’s expecting these to be used, it’s some quota where they have to build X number of kms of bike lane so the politicians can placate us and hope nobody notices.

      • library_napper@monyet.cc
        1·
        1 year ago

        This. Its what happens when city council says do something without actually giving the millions of dollars needed to hire the folks to design an actual solution to improve the bikeability of their district

  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yup. as a huge truck driver and also as a bicyclist, I’m always very aware of bike lanes, especially these mergey-switchy areas. I have been the bicyclist in this situation before and I have been hit by a car in even less-dangerous traffic patterns before. I’m very conscientious about bicyclists when I’m driving.

    • Player2@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      1 year ago

      Painted bicycle gutters are car infrastructure. Bicycle infrastructure would be to remove a car lane and have a concrete barrier (or remove the road entirely)