Cost? More than $3 million.
Shouldn’t you have figured out that 75% of people didn’t like the design BEFORE you spent millions doing it?
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.
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!
Next year: looks like nobody uses this bike lane. Is parking space now.
No one is using this bike lane, which is convenient, because someone i know bought a very wider truck and we need a wider road.
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.
The way that mayor displays empathy for car drivers and very obviously none for cyclists is really something. I won’t even go into details, his arguments are all shit.
Also, I bet they were complaining like hell about how expensive it was when it was built: $4million! And now it costs 3million to remove. As they say, the cruelty is the point.
his arguments are all shit
Absolutely! Especially the one about cars needing to “take control of the space” by blocking the bike lane when turning right!
That’s not their fucking space to control! If they did that shit in a country with sane traffic laws, they’d be liable for a significant fine and likely points on their license and deservedly so!
Smells like corruption.
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.
Its always some boomer isn’t it?
They could just paint the lines the other way to people park going forward instead of backing up, or just replace them with regular perpendicular parking spots and actually Dien the bike lane or add trees. So dumb.
