3mo ago

sorry guys for not posting in a while i was touching grass

https://illinoisanswers.org/2022/11/29/life-and-death-chicago-most-dangerous-bike-lane-milwaukee-avenue/ and similar :( many such cases

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its weird to me that willingly killing people is intentional because its cheaper than making them safe.
- It's worse than not being done for being cheaper - it's politically less convenient to let people die. Car infrastructure is many times more expensive than safer alternatives, and far less efficient at moving people.
Well-meaning people: We are requiring the city to install X miles of bicycle infrastructure!
City: Slaps some paint in the right lane of a busy road and calls it a bike path. Done!
- And don't bother asking silly questions like "why did those 20 buckets of paint cost $3.5 Million?" or "how did you afford that new yacht on $80,000/yr?"
This is the sort of shit that ought to get a traffic engineer stripped of his PE license.
In parts of California you are allowed to ride on the freeway shoulder. AFAIK it's only legal when there is no reasonable alternative.
I've done it a few times --- it's not ideal, but it's not horrible, mostly because you don't cross on/off ramps (it's just from one exit to the next). In my case I did it because the multi-use path I was planning on using was temporarily closed.
I have been on a different ride where I crossed on/off ramps (I should have taken a different route!), and that really sucked.
Cement barriers separate the protected bike lane along Milwaukee Avenue near Schurz High School on Nov. 22 in Irving Park. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago
Until you get to the "Road closed" sign blocking the entire bike lane, then fuck you.
Is that a bike lane on what is basically a highway?!
- Not a highway, but a very main thoroughfare surface street. Lots of six-point intersections all up and down Milwaukee Ave., too. Those are dangerous enough for cars, I can't imagine what it would be like to cycle through them.

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