It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection.
It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection.
This about the dumbest post I’ve seen today. How dare these people exercise safety so that they can install the fucking safety barriers that you want for the bike lanes. Holy shit, take a step back and get a sense of reality.
The point is that the teeny little barriers they’re installing which are supposedly adequate for cyclists’ safety are far less protection than the massive buffer they have as protection while installing them.
It’s not about blaming the people doing the installation, it’s about highlighting the government’s hypocrisy when it comes to cyclist safety.
I get the point. It’s just a shitty point. We can agree that the bike lane is not sufficiently safe, and you claim that those barriers are inadequate, but comparing the safety of bikers in the bike lane vs workers literally working in the car lane, and somehow correlating them shutting down that lane as hypocrisy is a shit argument. Apples and oranges.
Butt hurt much?
Why didnt they barricade the car lane off and use that to install the bike barrier lane protectors from ? Use stop / go personell so cars can use the other lane.
They’ve blocked the entire cycle lane with what looks like a compressor up ahead as well (presumably to supply a pneumatic drill for the bolts)
Or here’s an idea, install concrete barricades from the back of a truck with a crane that actually project cyclists from being murdered.
That is an idea, but it has nothing to do with this post. You’ve taken my criticism of OP and spun it into something completely different. The post isn’t about the safety of the bike lane. It’s about the supposed hypocrisy of closing down the car lane while doing construction work in it. It’s asinine. You can piss and moan about the barriers not being enough, but regardless of the device being installed, closing off that section of the car lane (and bike lane for that matter) is the only prudent thing to do for the safety of those workers.
Please go back to Facebook, YouTube comments, or even Reddit with this petulant behavior.
No one here wants this sort of low quality, personally, attacking, bratty behavior in their discussions.
It’s fuck cars on ml, and you’re expecting reality?
You know how there’s dangerous assholes on the road that disobey all the rules, cause incidents, yell at other users, etc, just generally get around the place with zero regard for others and the idea that they’re always in the right?
Yep. Those people. Whether they’re in a car or on a bike makes zero difference. Everyone would love to see those people off the roads.
This post ooooozes that entitlement, rage, and disregard for anyone else. How else could someone be like this if not a complete asshole?