Love how professionally this was made. Not just a printout but an actual sign.
Fastened with 14 bolts, nonetheless.
And washers!!
My favorite is when they put the bike lane in the middle of the street between the right and left vehicle traffic lanes. I feel so safe with murder machines on both sides of me!
D.C. has this with four lanes on each side and near highway speeds and people with domestic immunity zipping around through traffic. It’s nuts!
My favorite is when they do not stop for stop signs or traffic lights. I respect your life as much as you do.
Isn’t it fun to project generalizations?
Made come back to reddit (ew!) to get this saved comment
Nah.
Car drivers break the law slightly more than cyclists, with a far greater toll.
This separate study came to the same conclusion:
Cyclists Break Far Fewer Road Rules Than Motorists, Finds New Video Study
And this study:
Cyclists Are More Law-Abiding Than Drivers
Also car drivers cause the vast majority of accidents between bikes and cars.
Four in every five crashes between cars and bicycles caused by driver of car
This seperate study in Melbourne came to the same conclusion:
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/drivers-at-fault-in-majority-of-cycling-accidents/
In 88.9% of cases, the cyclist had been travelling in a safe/legal manner prior to the collision/near miss. Most happened at or near a junction (70.3%) and most were caused by sudden lane changes by the motorist, with sideswipe the most frequent cause (40.7%).
And this one carried out on behalf of the Department of Transport in London:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/dec/15/cycling-bike-accidents-study
With adult cyclists, police found the driver solely responsible in about 60%-75% of all cases, and riders solely at fault 17%-25% of the time.
And this study by The City of Westminster Council:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/crashes-involving-bikes-mostly-drivers-fault-9s2ssx06vn9
The City of Westminster Council found that drivers were to blame for 68 per cent of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles in the borough in the past 12 months. It found that cyclists were at fault for only 20 per cent. In the remaining 12 per cent of cases, no cause could be found or both parties were to blame.
And one from Bavaria, Germany. In 2013-2016,
In car-bike collisions, the car was at fault 75% of the time In semi-bike collisions, the semi was at fault 80% of the time
So that’s five separate studies in different cities and countries, using different methodologies, all coming to the same conclusion.
Cheers.
hardly surprising, there’s much less incentive to break road rules when you’re completely vulnerable to everyone around you and balanced on 2 wheels.
Damn, I wish I could save this on lemmy.
Pretty sure you can. Im using Jerboa and can bookmark comments and posts.
Nice, unfortunately not in memmy on ios
I’ve been hit by a car a lost several weeks to amnesia from a TBI, forgive me for being afraid of murder machines when I have nothing but a painted line to protect me from them.
@marmo7ade @queermunist Who is “they” here? Cyclists?
Plenty of cars don’t stop for stop signs and traffic lights too. At least around all the crossings near where I live. Now, it’s possible that there are timing issues, but AFAICS the mentality is it’s okay to keep going as long as the car in front of me is moving. Regardless of the state of the lights.
Oh dang I bike that on the regular. It sucks!
You read the sign, someone’s gotta take one for the team
Godspeed brother
Damn I literally just passed this street a few minutes ago, pretty jarring to see familiar places like this on the internet
Yeah Canadians are at least polite. In Germany, they will just silently remove the bike lane and sent police ON BIKES herding cyclists from sidewalk into the traffic.
- Mogan Freeman voice* The city did not figure it out after a cyclist was killed.
Is there a picture of the actual junction?
this seems to be the spot (with the same car, lol)
edit: i think i found the problem too. look at it from this angle, the bike lane just disappears. like wtf?
WHO DESIGNED THIS?
This is obviously still designed as shit but I believe this is the intent!
https://media.cleanshot.cloud/media/67165/209GFODiC4HzKYjOwOxg0kN6inGVQml1ZPjqyfCe.jpeg?Expires=1689187732&Signature=JjDMqNJpws0OXaCYFlMS8szfm8lBMsJjZRCMvvgDll1JbT1Dl0X2SI7-jfX6OuxdPSBRZhANQszAO9AgG7NPycd0-qUgyr5U4Sla6ej0SuioD9N8w1SCkWjgQy-G926WkJHLZsg5y4pxcEPwqZBhjKNI-rBm6112DZicFkqC0GZj7Qm-f76oVKccbbJzStTqktcP-IIBDAex-4WOQUh-9o~DenId5VMA812NguGc1s1Lz092dsDp5fAXI8oFSE-TuGt48TpRNEdV68XtQ9rKoOOSJSj4dPzu41DfspjMPF3ohmeHyD7QnDJPQBSJNFj9evFox2lX~sHq9KDo7kgCOA__&Key-Pair-Id=K269JMAT9ZF4GZthere is no bike lane on that side of the road though
(also, you can embed images with the
syntaxDo you go both ways on bike lanes? In Sweden I’d often go in the car lane but never against the flow of traffic
Thats how I embedded it, does it appear weird for you? I’m on kbin if that might be the problem
It looks like a regular hyperlink, you need to tap it to see the picture. For embedded pictures you leave the alt text blank. Also no you stay on the same direction as cars. The problem is this bike crossing doesn’t lead anywhere, there is no bike lane coming this direction. And you should typically ride to the right of cars but it might be ok to be on the other curb when it’s a one-way street like this.
For embedded pictures you leave the alt text blank
That’s not necessary. I usually leave it in so visually impaired people know what the image is about
Yes, because bicycles sharing the lane with cars for random stretches works so well. No one’s life is in danger here! /s
