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A friend was recently complaining that cyclists were (also) complaining when he was walking on bike paths, but the city itself asks pedestrians to walk on bike paths because there's often no sidewalk. There's space for 4 lanes of cars plus parking on both sides, but not a sidewalk and a bike path, it's one or the other.
In don't remember the guy's name right now but there was an infamous cycling advocate a few decades ago that was against bike paths because it put cyclists into a specific space instead of making everyone share the streets that were already existing. I kind of wish his way of thinking won. Instead of pushing cyclists, pedestrians, people with strollers, people on scooters and all of the "not a car" forms of transport into the margins of a street, we should give the street to everyone, and force people with cars to share and care for everyone.
I know it's fantasy and unfortunately cars will always be given most of the space, even when road dieting, but it would have been nice.
What city is this? No sidewalk???
Probably one of the many North American car dependent cities unfortunately. Even if there are sidewalks, they probably don't have curb cuts, and are not plesent to walk down.
Drummondville in Québec. They have multiple stroads where they put a bidirectional bike path on one side of the street, and sometimes a sidewalk on the other side, or not.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7og9R94mDoKashZZ9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zrkAVxA6Y2pN9tgS8
We can't see it on street view but they recently painted pedestrians on the bike paths, to indicate they are shared, probably because cyclists were getting annoyed.
"I can beat them all to the next red light."
Oh man.
I remember when I think it was Houston started using timed lights, the idiots said that a light timed for 30 MPH was also timed for 60 and 90 MPH. It's hard to comprehend such stupidity and bad math.
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whilst I agree with the message, no busses are that narrow
~~I think that's depicting a tram, not a bus.~~
Edit wait no I'm wrong it has wheels it's a bus, not a tram nvm. Looked like a tram. Exactly because no buses are that narrow. Oh well. Art.
There's some artistic liberties taken but neither are the bike lanes or passenger cars that narrow.
The bike lane doesn't have a car parked in it, also...
You're morally obligated to smash mirrors on cars parked on bike lanes
Well, if we use the car to scale - the bike should be 1 seat wide, the bus stop should be 2 seats wide, and the bus itself should be 5 seats wide
Someone with photoshop skills needs to fix this
It's fine, even in it's current form it still manages to drive in the point
somewhat disingenuously though - my initial take away was that a car took up as much space as a bus and bike combined, and it was only later that I realised it was talking about more efficient or cleaner ways to transport people
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No bus has that little people in it either
There are many cases when a bus can have a really small amount of people, sometimes 1 or 2
Can confirm. After work I'm sometimes the only passenger on the bus.
This is some sci-fi bus where the guy takes off his backpack and no one is blasting Skrillex on a Bluetooth speaker abomination.
I was on my usual bike ride a couple of years ago. On a particularly wide road, a car passed me and went way over into the other lane to do so, even though he could have kept the required 4' distance from me without crossing the double yellow line. Because he went so far into the opposite lane, a van coming the opposite way had to slow down a little bit - not even stop, just slow down. As this van passed me, the driver literally stuck his upper body out the window and yelled "you're gonna get somebody killed!" ... at me, not at the driver of the car that passed me.
I just couldn't believe the insanity of this dude. Like, I didn't make the fucking car pass me like that, and at most it made him get to the red light two seconds later than he otherwise would have.
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