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Cycle lane paused after thousands of locals object (www.bbc.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Veserr@sh.itjust.works to c/unitedkingdom@feddit.uk

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[–] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

Ah yes, the ol' "this project is stupid because it isn't finished yet" argument. 🙄

By the way:

and then are inevitably lucky if you see anyone using them.

That's often not because they aren't being used; it's because bike lanes have 2-3x the capacity of general-purpose lanes. They look a lot less busy even when they're carrying the same number of vehicles.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 8 points 8 months ago

Yes, actually. I'm not inclined to dig through my comment history to find it, but a while back, somebody posted an image of a street in the UK and complained that hardly anybody used the bike lane. I counted, and pointed out that in that very image, there were more humans in the bike lane than in the car lane. It just looked empty because cars are such a tremendous waste of space.