• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlOP
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    11 months ago

    It’s basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.

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

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    I wouldn’t mind too much. Just gonna take me a few minutes to get up to merging speed.

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      11 months ago

      If you don’t have solid rocket boosters on your bike for highway travel, what are you doing with your life?

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      11 months ago

      “Hey, you’ll still die, but at least we’ll be able to identity your mangled corpse for your family!”

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          11 months ago

          “The helmet held off the drunk redneck in the luxury truck just long enough for us to acquire a tissue sample from which the DNA was sequenced. We were able to positively identify the remains of your child. I’m sorry.”

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      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)

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      11 months ago

      I mean, it’s an example of cars fucking over bikes. Relevant enough imo

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      11 months ago

      Either way, i hope no one is foolish enough to cycle on a 4 way motorway…

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        Takes me back to the time I was a kid and got lost riding my bike in my suburb. I ended up on the other side of the town, and to get home my stupid ass rode on the shoulder of the major highway, no helmet, going the wrong direction.

        Made it home unharmed by sheer luck lmao.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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

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    It looks like the bike lane ends where the engineer started WTFing and starts up again after the confusing spot. It’s above his paygrade to figure out how to move the bikes safely from the left of the merging lane to the right of it, I guess.