Cost? More than $3 million.
Jake Gotta WHAT??
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.
Shouldn’t you have figured out that 75% of people didn’t like the design BEFORE you spent millions doing it?
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.
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.
Not knowing your city I can’t speak to that, but I’ve been both a cyclist and a pedestrian in those circumstances and it fucking sucks. People tend to spread out when they walk, and cyclists are typically moving fast enough that walkers are effectively stationary in comparison. So walking becomes a frustrating exercise in dodging bikes, and cycling becomes a frustrating exercise in avoiding clumps of people (along with whatever other crap is placed on the sidewalk without considering cyclists.)
Its always some boomer isn’t it?
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 😀
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.
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.
