This was my favorite thing to think about back when I lived somewhere bikable
Absolutely, I was always faster with my bike inside the outer city ring, mainly because I saved looking for a parking space. Now? Not so much. My commute is 50km across the mountains, 45 minutes by car, three hours by bike if I take the electric one.
Bicycles FTW
But fuck those motorbikes in the bicycle lane
I thought that’s what this was at first, then I realized the video is just sped up.
I’m from Arvada CO and I’m allowed to drive my Honda ruckus in bike lanes on the road since I’m 50ccs or less, I never see actually bikes though, feels as if all ebikes just use the sidewalk lol
Well there’s not a motorbike lane, and it’s a bit safer than lane-splitting, so we can share. It’s not like OP is blasting past bicycles doing faster than a fast bicycle can.
But also I’m 99% sure that’s a bicycle.
Oh I know it’s a bicycle in the video. I mean I was almost hit by a motorbike in the bicycle lane few months ago
I think we should join all those metal boxes together end to end, enlarge the space within, place them all on a track and make it run on a schedule. Just pitching ideas here, what do you guys make of it?
What is this, Communalism?
Ah, the good old Adam Something trick! In the end everything can become a train!
I also always love these long ass comment chains where people optimise any problem / solution for traffic/transport until it becomes a train.
Meanwhile in my city: passed cars: 1. The second car is already blocking the bike lane for mysterious reasons and you cannot get around. Then first right turn possibility: all the cars turn right without watching out for bikes. Then the light is red again. Maybe you can make it alive during the next green phase 🥲
I like this feeling when I take the bike.
God I hate the assholes that can’t even stay in the lines when atopped.
150 cars locking up several buses and an ambulance, no less.
All those school busses indicates this is at maximum possible congestion condition time.
The blocks around my kids school become an instant popup blockade for about 30 minutes everyday.
Public transit options are so necessary.
Yeah, we are about a mile from my kids’ elementary school, so I drive about halfway to the school and walk the rest with them, because I just have zero interest in being stuck in the chaos that is that last quarter mile. Plus, I feel good having them walk a bit to get to school, I like to think it’ll get them both used to being on foot more. My older one walks one day a week in a group about a mile to school. The younger one is four, and I have zero expectation that he’d do the entire walk, and even less expectation that we’d get there on time.
Have you thought about a bike bus? A Mile bike ride is very doable if the roads aren’t terrible.
Besides a bike bus, if it’s just one or 2 kids a well done cargo bike will get them there easily. A mile bike ride is doable even with horrifyingly bad roads.
It’s actually an amazing feeling when this happens. Makes me pedal way harder.
I’d bet a bunch of them would rather be on their bikes with you if there were decent bike infrastructure…
Infrastructure is the key. I’ve had a lot of people tell me they’re too scared to cycle.
I bike to work everyday(25km back and forth), mainly in a city that is doing well in term of infrastructure (Paris, but I live in the suburbs), and sometimes when I’m home and think about it an I wonder why I’m doing something that dangerous. But then when I’m on the bike I don’t feel in danger at all.
It’s weird, and I guess it is a brake on change.
I feel similar. 5km to work for me and I ride it every day. Probably twice a week I have a bad encounter with a car. Usually just them not noticing me on a crosswalk (which is why I always pretend I’m invisible). And in my city, we have far above the national average of bike deaths from cars.
But I still enjoy biking, and don’t enjoy driving. And think cars ruin cities. And want change. I guess that’s enough for me to ignore the serious risks.
The fools! The cowards! We should take away their metal boxes!
*METAL BAWKSES
Thought I’d have to scroll past the Omnissiah’s blessed tits before I found this.
Imagine how many other bike riders we would have if bike lanes weren’t this terrifying
I had the same thought. It looked pretty tame to me, but I’m an experienced cyclist. It must look harrowing if you haven’t cycled much, especially with the sped up video. Those of us “in the know” get the point op is trying to make, and in this space it’s probably 99% of us, but I have to wonder if these kinds of posts hurt more than they help.
I think they help.
We just also need to encourage physical barriers for bike lanes instead of paint and good faith.
150 people, likely? So a couple busses or a single crowded LRT? Heavens…
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One bus route doesn’t have to go everywhere.
A well-designed public transport network, even if it “just” uses buses, will have opportunities for connecting journeys. Passengers can change buses and travel to destinations on other routes.
If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.
And that’s with a curb on the other side. I’ve been on many bike lanes with parking on the right. If it isn’t blocked entirely, there are cars going back and forth, doors opening, clueless people standing there, etc.
You don’t like it when the cars randomly drift into the bike lanes? You really need to learn to share the road, my friend.
We should run high-speed rail down the general traffic lane. I see no problem with this if people learn to share the road.
Some cities have streetcars/trolleys sharing the road. The Green Line in Boston does this. It’s separated through some sections, but in others it’s just raw-dogging the street. It seems to work out fine for them for the most part. There’d be riots if they tried that in my suburban town.
A few observations:
- That’s a fuck-ton of distance for 150 cars.
- “One more lane, bro” wouldn’t make a goddamn difference.
- We really need bike lanes… on every road.
The cars aren’t standing still.
Those brake lights tell a different story. Still, what are we talking… a 1 or 2 km length of road for 150 cars to be passed by a single cyclist? Such an inefficient use of space.
True, there’s that one point where the cyclist doesn’t pass any cars because they’re all completely stopped. It’s also true that the rate of passing is completely the same the entire time because all the brake lights are on.
What is this, a bike lane for ants!?
