The only downside I’ve discovered, at least in Chicago, is that funding for separated bike lines usually don’t include funding for separate snow removal.
Not that having the bike lane on the very edge of the plows path isn’t a mixed bag too. You’re as likely to get incidental clearing as you are incidental piles from the road clearing.
Honestly it’s probably a wash, but I wish there was snow removal funding.
In Berlin there is noone who’s responsible for removing snow on bike lanes OR even most sidewalks. Only roads. We don’t often get much snow, but now the city is now basically uncyclable until it melts away…
Someone is always waiting for someone else to take the first step.
Are you fucking kidding me? John Mulaney is in town and you didn’t fucking tell me?
Nick Offerman is in town in two weeks!
I’m more curious what Death Stranding Live is.
I want to go to 3/6 of those shows
NGL, that is actually a nice photo. Love the Paramount marquee…
Where is the bike lane in this picture?
Left side of the street between the curbs
That’s… tiny, single file, high pressure for fuck ups sending you into traffic, but better than nothing I guess? Is this meant to be a one way street ? otherwise passing oncoming bikes would be nigh on impossible…
I used to bike this area all the time, this section is one way yeah
Why is it the same color as the car lanes?
Here (the Netherlands) all bike lanes are red and it makes things so much clearer for everyone.
This is in downtown Seattle. The bike lanes generally have green where they overlap with traffic but are unpainted otherwise. They’re also rather faded and blend in extra depending on the weather. Not the most amazing but they do try and differentiate with color. Here’s what I mean from just a few meters away from ops image:
Better than nothing but Seattle bike lanes still put you at major risk of getting doored. This one in particular is right after coming down a relatively clear hill and suddenly there’s people getting in and out of cars
I’ve seen some UPS drivers that would just drive over them and park there without a second thought. I always said they should make the poles out of concrete.
I don’t understand why the US is so averse to retractable traffic bollards other than being cheap bastards. That way you can still provide access when certain vehicles need to be able to enter a space, but are also firmly protecting the area any time that there isn’t a vehicle that legitimately needs to enter the space (say for example a back alley that only occasionally needs passage for a service vehicle).
other than being cheap bastards
I mean the answer is right there.
That is the sole thing that guides all of American society now. It’s at the core of nearly every business, and definitely any business of size or note. Maximizing profits is the number 1 priority of the country now, above anything else.
We played too much Watch_Dogs and saw the potential for malicious hacking to wreck shit. /s
In my neighborhood there was a bike lane separated from the motor traffic with concrete bollards.
They removed the concrete bollards and replaced them with these shitty plastic ones… because people kept driving their cars into them.
UPS drivers > FedEx drivers. They get better safety training and their drivers get more manageable delivery loads so they’re not as harried. They’re also less likely to use the bike lane as a staging area for resorting all the boxes from their truck. I’ve comes very close to death as a result of bad FedEx truck driving multiple times, but I’ve never felt like my life was on the line around a UPS driver.
Also, FedEx drivers > FedEx Ground drivers. FedEx Ground is all subcontractors, which just adds another layer of fuckery.
