https://illinoisanswers.org/2022/11/29/life-and-death-chicago-most-dangerous-bike-lane-milwaukee-avenue/ and similar :( many such cases
its weird to me that willingly killing people is intentional because its cheaper than making them safe.
It’s worse than not being done for being cheaper - it’s politically less convenient to let people die. Car infrastructure is many times more expensive than safer alternatives, and far less efficient at moving people.
Well-meaning people: We are requiring the city to install X miles of bicycle infrastructure!
City: Slaps some paint in the right lane of a busy road and calls it a bike path. Done!
And don’t bother asking silly questions like “why did those 20 buckets of paint cost $3.5 Million?” or “how did you afford that new yacht on $80,000/yr?”
This is the sort of shit that ought to get a traffic engineer stripped of his PE license.
In parts of California you are allowed to ride on the freeway shoulder. AFAIK it’s only legal when there is no reasonable alternative.
I’ve done it a few times — it’s not ideal, but it’s not horrible, mostly because you don’t cross on/off ramps (it’s just from one exit to the next). In my case I did it because the multi-use path I was planning on using was temporarily closed.
I have been on a different ride where I crossed on/off ramps (I should have taken a different route!), and that really sucked.
Yeah I’ve seen loads of these in Canada.
Just what the fuck were they thinking? Like seriously, who designed this and thought it was a good idea? This is painfully stupid.
Then again, most traffic rules and street designs are done be so poorly that driving and riding bikes is safer and easier in Mexico.
The Canadian traffic light are just hilarious and horrible at the same time. For example:
Green in Europe, and Mexico, means you can just go. Theoretically, you can close your eyes and croos and be fine (obviously don’t do this, but by design, you could). In Canada a green light means shit. You can try to cross now, but (for example)making a left turn with your car is a hellish experience where you still have to dodge oncoming traffic that also got green, then try not to murder pedestrians that also got green.
Another one?
6 lane stroad and 4 Lane stroad intersect, and only the 6 lane one has traffic lights for cars, so if you gotta cross that, you have to get out of your car, press the pedestrian crossing button, get back in and wait for the pedestrian light or, alternatively, you pray VERY hard to whatever god is out there, find a possible gap, close your eyes and floor it. This is how my son got sideswiped by some newbie trying to cross like that.
That is Canadian traffic for you.
In Europe you still need to give way for cars that are crossing straight from the other side when you want to turn left, and take care of pedestrians that also have green on a right hand turn. Granted, not all crossings are like this, but many are.
Until you get to the “Road closed” sign blocking the entire bike lane, then fuck you.
Is that a bike lane on what is basically a highway?!
Not a highway, but a very main thoroughfare surface street. Lots of six-point intersections all up and down Milwaukee Ave., too. Those are dangerous enough for cars, I can’t imagine what it would be like to cycle through them.
Broke: kys
Woke: go commit bike lane above
