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Where is this monstrosity?
- It resembles Steven's Creek by I-480(?), lemme try to enhance that sign
  Edit: oh man this image is compressed all to hell. There's a very similar death trap at Steven's Creek Blvd. and I-280 in Cupertino, but this ain't it.
  
  The sign might say "Tampa", but that's based off of like 18 pixels
  Plus the road design and landscape looks pretty floridian.
- Looks like the meme was made from this twitter post.
  https://imgur.io/HSVYA2H
- FL-804 & Florida's Turnpike. https://maps.app.goo.gl/1AKEkNbSW6wkhLYa8

It's basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.
Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!

That's why we call those type of "bike lanes" a murder strip.
Have them where I live too.
31°57'30"S 115°54'16"E
- All around Vic, too. They generally don't even put in a bike lane, just say "use the emergency lane". Here's a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:
  
  This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.
  The shoulder is the emergency lane. It's where drivers pull over into if there's an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.
  
  There used to be a sign "helping" cyclists already on the freeway by telling them "cross here with care":
  
  But it was obliterated by a vehicle:
- Holy shit lmao
- I got "Invalid Dynamic Link" on your link.
  
  Same. Not sure what happened there. Have replaced with it's lat long.
- 4PWQ2WR3+MQ here's a plus code for ye (apparently Google's open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)

I wouldn't mind too much. Just gonna take me a few minutes to get up to merging speed.
- If you don't have solid rocket boosters on your bike for highway travel, what are you doing with your life?

I love how the made sure to get a helmet painted on that cyclist icon
- "Hey, you'll still die, but at least we'll be able to identity your mangled corpse for your family!"
  
  Yeah they read, the nametag in the helmet

Hey man, it's fuck cars, not fuck bikes.
- 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)
- I mean, it's an example of cars fucking over bikes. Relevant enough imo
- Either way, i hope no one is foolish enough to cycle on a 4 way motorway...
  
  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.

There're thousands of less painful ways to quit. It's for people who are both suicidal and adventurous lol.

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.
- Feels good to know I'm not the only big rig/bicyclist in the world.

I'm not sure if this is just hilariously optimistic, or some kind of sinister and deliberate murder-by--urban-planning
- the first one would be my guess. They just haven't thought it through remotely
- 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.
  
  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

When bike lanes are made (designed) by those who never use them...

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.

Eh, I've ridden on worse

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