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 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?
Ah, the good old Adam Something trick! In the end everything can become a train!
I like this feeling when I take the bike.
God I hate the assholes that can’t even stay in the lines when atopped.
The fools! The cowards! We should take away their metal boxes!
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.
Besides a bike bus, if it’s just one or 2 kids a well done cargo bike will get them there easily. A mile bike ride is doable even with horrifyingly bad roads.
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.
150 people, likely? So a couple busses or a single crowded LRT? Heavens…
Realistically it can’t be a couple of buses because they’re not all going to the same place. But even 20 buses would cause such a stand still.
What is this, a bike lane for ants!?
Imagine how many other bike riders we would have if bike lanes weren’t this terrifying
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.
I started commuting by bike. I’ve never enjoyed commuting more.
Not all cities are expensive, and they usually offer higher wages to compensate.
If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.
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 have shared lanes between freight trains and cars, without any signalling or crossing. Everyone should share
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.
True, there’s that one point where the cyclist doesn’t pass any cars because they’re all completely stopped. It’s also true that the rate of passing is completely the same the entire time because all the brake lights are on.
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…
Pretty sure they’re being annoyingly pedantic considering things like motorcycles etc
