Look at all these people stuck in their metal boxes

This was my favorite thing to think about back when I lived somewhere bikable

Absolutely, I was always faster with my bike inside the outer city ring, mainly because I saved looking for a parking space. Now? Not so much. My commute is 50km across the mountains, 45 minutes by car, three hours by bike if I take the electric one.

Bicycles FTW

But fuck those motorbikes in the bicycle lane

I'm from Arvada CO and I'm allowed to drive my Honda ruckus in bike lanes on the road since I'm 50ccs or less, I never see actually bikes though, feels as if all ebikes just use the sidewalk lol
I thought that's what this was at first, then I realized the video is just sped up.
Well there's not a motorbike lane, and it's a bit safer than lane-splitting, so we can share. It's not like OP is blasting past bicycles doing faster than a fast bicycle can.
But also I'm 99% sure that's a bicycle.
- Oh I know it's a bicycle in the video. I mean I was almost hit by a motorbike in the bicycle lane few months ago

I think we should join all those metal boxes together end to end, enlarge the space within, place them all on a track and make it run on a schedule. Just pitching ideas here, what do you guys make of it?

What is this, Communalism?
Ah, the good old Adam Something trick! In the end everything can become a train!
- I also always love these long ass comment chains where people optimise any problem / solution for traffic/transport until it becomes a train.

Meanwhile in my city: passed cars: 1. The second car is already blocking the bike lane for mysterious reasons and you cannot get around. Then first right turn possibility: all the cars turn right without watching out for bikes. Then the light is red again. Maybe you can make it alive during the next green phase 🥲

I like this feeling when I take the bike.

God I hate the assholes that can't even stay in the lines when atopped.

150 cars locking up several buses and an ambulance, no less.

All those school busses indicates this is at maximum possible congestion condition time.

The blocks around my kids school become an instant popup blockade for about 30 minutes everyday.

Public transit options are so necessary.

Yeah, we are about a mile from my kids' elementary school, so I drive about halfway to the school and walk the rest with them, because I just have zero interest in being stuck in the chaos that is that last quarter mile. Plus, I feel good having them walk a bit to get to school, I like to think it'll get them both used to being on foot more. My older one walks one day a week in a group about a mile to school. The younger one is four, and I have zero expectation that he'd do the entire walk, and even less expectation that we'd get there on time.
- Have you thought about a bike bus? A Mile bike ride is very doable if the roads aren't terrible.

The fools! The cowards! We should take away their metal boxes!

*METAL BAWKSES
Thought I'd have to scroll past the Omnissiah's blessed tits before I found this.

It's actually an amazing feeling when this happens. Makes me pedal way harder.

I'd bet a bunch of them would rather be on their bikes with you if there were decent bike infrastructure...

Infrastructure is the key. I've had a lot of people tell me they're too scared to cycle.
- I bike to work everyday(25km back and forth), mainly in a city that is doing well in term of infrastructure (Paris, but I live in the suburbs), and sometimes when I'm home and think about it an I wonder why I'm doing something that dangerous. But then when I'm on the bike I don't feel in danger at all.
  It's weird, and I guess it is a brake on change.

Imagine how many other bike riders we would have if bike lanes weren't this terrifying

I had the same thought. It looked pretty tame to me, but I'm an experienced cyclist. It must look harrowing if you haven't cycled much, especially with the sped up video. Those of us "in the know" get the point op is trying to make, and in this space it's probably 99% of us, but I have to wonder if these kinds of posts hurt more than they help.
- I think they help.
  We just also need to encourage physical barriers for bike lanes instead of paint and good faith.

150 people, likely? So a couple busses or a single crowded LRT? Heavens...

- One bus route doesn't have to go everywhere.
  A well-designed public transport network, even if it "just" uses buses, will have opportunities for connecting journeys. Passengers can change buses and travel to destinations on other routes.

If only separated bike lanes were more common. I'm really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.

And that's with a curb on the other side. I've been on many bike lanes with parking on the right. If it isn't blocked entirely, there are cars going back and forth, doors opening, clueless people standing there, etc.
You don't like it when the cars randomly drift into the bike lanes? You really need to learn to share the road, my friend.
- We should run high-speed rail down the general traffic lane. I see no problem with this if people learn to share the road.
- We should have shared lanes between freight trains and cars, without any signalling or crossing. Everyone should share

What is this, a bike lane for ants!?

A few observations:

That's a fuck-ton of distance for 150 cars.
"One more lane, bro" wouldn't make a goddamn difference.
We really need bike lanes... on every road.

The cars aren't standing still.
- Those brake lights tell a different story. Still, what are we talking... a 1 or 2 km length of road for 150 cars to be passed by a single cyclist? Such an inefficient use of space.

And so many of them can't stay on their side of the line. Glad nobody was opening doors.

Flying by traffic really is one of the best feelings, not quite up there with being on a trail with no traffic, but still... just great.

Even more satisfying is doing it on foot while walking my dog!
- Walking and cycling have that in common - you can just stop and admire the views :)

A fun game for cyclists : it's called The Race. I think there were rules somewhere on the internet. I've forgotten the details but this is basically how it goes.

You get 1 point every time you pass a "slow" bike: people who are taking their time, old contraptions, etc
2 pts for decent bikes
3 points for cyclists in racing attire
4 points for electric bikes
5 points for cars

You lose the same amount every time you get passed

On good days I can easily get in the thousands with all the cars commuting. Makes me feel so good.

How many points for busses? Trains?
- Where I am, cyclists and busses share the same lane, so it would be extra hard to pass one. 20 points?
  Passing a train would make you the king/queen of bicycle forever
I used to cross the Manhattan Bridge in NYC on my commute, sometimes the Q or D train would emerge out of the tunnel onto the bridge just as I was coming up the bike ramp and it was a really fun challenge to try racing it up to the apex. If you can manage to pace it on the uphill, you'll always pass it on the downhill, and then come ripping off the bridge at near 30 mph.

Shouldn't it be about double that number because of the second car lane?

Yes, but also friendly reminder that there is no such thing as a "car lane." There is only a general-purpose lane, which allows cars along with all other vehicle types (including bicycles, even if there's also a bicycle-only lane).
- That's going to depend on your local area's laws.
- I mean, motorized vehicle only roads exist…

Centre Street in Boston. Amusingly enough, this video starts a stone's throw away from a major transit hub connecting three commuter rail lines to the T.

And worth noting, it looks like this backup is almost entirely caused by the reduction to one lane at the Allandale Street intersection due to construction.

I've heard construction is pretty rare in Boston.

😭

Not including the buses that are sadly stuck there because of cars, I imagine that would be roughly 150 persons 😄

All well and good if you can afford to live in a city. Commuted by bike for a decade. Commuted by train+bike for a few years. I honestly never wanna get on a bike again. Maybe a train if it’s fast.

There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.
Also it's not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ... or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.
"afford to live in a city" is such a violently american sentence it just gave me heartburn
- Not sure what you want me to do about that. Most cities are overpriced because of corpo-controlled properties and greedy private landlords. Biking as commute option is only viable if you live in a large urban area.
I started commuting by bike. I've never enjoyed commuting more.
Not all cities are expensive, and they usually offer higher wages to compensate.
- Enjoy it while you enjoy it.

It's a fucking fire emergency box
Log off, go for a bike ride.
I took a closer look and that doesn't look like a traffic light? I'm not actually sure what it is, it's kind of a red stand alone red bulb. Maybe it's meant to be a stop sign (but those usually blink), but yeah, take a look at the video one more time at a slower speed and it's clearly missing the two other lights for it to be a traffic light 🚦
- It’s a fire box. You can actually see a pretty good shot of another one in the first frame of the video. They’re basically public fire alarms with a pull lever, just like you’d find in buildings. When you pull the lever, it automatically alerts the fire department. They pass several throughout the video; Boston is full of them.
Not a red, but funny enough, all those cars are blocking the intersection...
I think you should buy some glasses mate
That's not a standard stop light. It looks like a globe light that happens to be red - which is admittedly very confusing. What is that thing?
Is that a red light? Looks more like a red balloon or lamp post thing, but it is kind of grainy.
- Looks like a reflection on the camera lens for me?

The video is sped up, right?
- Looking at the jogger about halfway through, and the moving cars at the end, looks like it's 1.5x or 2x speed.
This video had obviously been sped up.
If you're using Boost or app capable for controlling playback speed, turn it to 0.25. That's the actual speed. Look out for the jogger at 25 second mark, that's the hint. Any other speed and the jogger will run in cartoonish speed.
- Lol, I reviewed it at .25 and I think you're right. I did that part again at .5 and it looked straight up silly. Those cars are fucked with how slow that is going, although I do think construction near the end might be impacting it.
it's obviously sped up and even if it wasn't this seems like a perfectly reasonable speed to bike at. This looks to be america and so you rather have to go fast in order to reach your destination within the hour..
Dunno about where you are but where I live cyclists do not have to adhere to "posted speed limits".
- Where this video was taken, cyclists do have to adhere to posted speed limits. However, we don't actually know what the speed limit was here (the 20 mph sign did not apply because it wasn't flashing). Edit: found it based on another commenter naming the street. 25 mph.
And a red light. Which was also blocked by gridlock, but still.
Also, oops a Uber passenger just ended their ride early and got out to walk, opens door on the biker because they are flying too fast.
- That's against the law in MA, passenger would be at fault.
  Motorist Responsibilities (see MGL Chapter 89, Section 2 and Chapter 90, Section 14)
  
  Motorists and their passengers must check for passing bicyclists before opening their door. Motorists and their passengers can be ticketed and fined up to $100 for opening car or truck doors into the path of any other traffic, including bicycles and pedestrians.