1d ago

Vista to remove bike lane barriers in some areas just months after installing them

www.nbcsandiego.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nowsci.com/post/13984982

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1d ago

Vista to remove bike lane barriers in some areas just months after installing them

www.nbcsandiego.com /news/local/vista-removing-bike-lane-barriers/3864149/

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1d ago

Vista to remove bike lane barriers in some areas just months after installing them

www.nbcsandiego.com /news/local/vista-removing-bike-lane-barriers/3864149/

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After the berms were installed, drivers complained that they were difficult to see, so they were hitting them
So they are telling us that they were driving on the cycling lane all this time, and those things make it difficult to do so
- So they are admitting that they cant pilot their vehicle safely...
  Remove their licenses, not the bike lanes
- No wonder the cyclists needed protection.
Watching that video, you can tell the mayor hates bikes and is part of the anti-bike crowd. "Bicyclists told us they hate these new lanes", except that's probably just the mayor's friend Bob who only rode for 10 minutes one day, so they could make this claim. They should have to prove there's really a lot of cyclists pushing for this before the city spends money undoing anything. From what I saw, this would be a huge improvement in my town and I would dig it.
This bullshit again, the “barriers” were folding markers and parking space bumpers. Local riders mostly disliked them since the bumpers wouldn’t stop any cars anyways and just create less control for everyone involved. If the dumbass city council did it right there wouldn’t have been an issue but they half assed it and got hate from both sides. Good riddance.
My city put up bike lanes on one street. The traffic here is already so bad and they took up a lane to put them there.
It ended up causing massive amounts of traffic and they removed them after about 6 months.
I think the problem was that they caused congestion coming off of a road that people use to get off the main highway and to the business district of my city.
I’ve literally never seen a bike there as it’s mostly corporate buildings and banks and it’s a tropical country. No one is going to ride a bike to that kind of job here.
Additionally, they were just used by motorcycles, so it would be unsafe for bikes anyway.
- Yeah I live in a country where it rains, snows and where people ride bikes to the office in their suits and shiny shoes because they prefer it over being stuck in traffic.
  Even the prime minister (now head of NATO) used to ride his bike to work, although that was probably also an image thing ("he looks so normal! What a nice guy").
  I don't think bikes are the problem, just one random bike lane is not going to cut it, you need a good (safe, quick, comfortable) route to get from A to B and a bit of time for people to adjust.
  Just note that every person that takes the bike means one less car on the road. So proper bike lanes are the solution for traffic jams.
  But in the end, if you want to live in a country that looks like a highway, you do you.
  
  I’m not saying I don’t want bike lanes.
  But the layout of the city I live in is a bunch of districted connected by a big highway.
  People are not riding a bike from one district to the other and if they do, they are at high risk of getting hit.
  So bike lanes are stupid when only 1 district implements them and doesn’t offer any way to get there from other places safely.
  It is literally unused and takes up a lane to worsen traffic even further.
- "They put a single bike lane on a single street and no one used it!!"
  I doubt many people would use a road for cars if there were only one and you had to drive on busy railroads to get to it. Same logic applies to a bike lane surrounded by car-centric infrastructure. You need a network, not a single lane, if you actually want people to use a means of transportation.
  That's ignoring the fact that drivers consistently underestimate how many people actually use the bike lane.
- Those people wouldn’t be stuck in traffic if they took a bike instead
  
  "Things have changed and now I am angry".

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