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[–] 22 points 5 days ago (14 children)

Bike lanes suck.

They're better than no bike infrastructure at all, but they're still suck city compared to dedicated bike paths with physical barriers between cyclists/cars and even cyclists/pedestrians.

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  • [–] 29 points 5 days ago (6 children)

    Fuck. Don't tell me those commie Demoncrats voted you into office too!!!!!??

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago* (5 children)

    I'd build those gosh darned commie railways, reduce roads* by a lane to make real dedicated bikeways and build euro style 4-5 story apartment blocks with retail on the ground floor and make it all walkable!

    muahahahahah!

    * Roads being Roads, not Streets or Highways.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately you'd have to solve the wage theft problem first unless you want only execs and the yuppiest yuppies living there. They were making similar plans in a not so terribly lefty city, to tear down a few neighborhoods and some not even old office buildings to build something similar. It wasn't for any utopian plan, but to further gentrify a core part of the city and make the land owners and developers filthy rich. There was no option to be grandfathered in. They were just going to tell hundreds of families and businesses to fuck off if they couldn't afford to move into where they already lived.

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  • [–] 15 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    they suck on stroads, yes. they're mostly fine in tight downtown areas alongside a single vehicle lane.

    I think most people refer to physically separated bike paths that share the same road surface as bike lanes. personally, I don't really like completely separate bike paths (around here, most commonly multi use paths), because they're not actually designed as infrastructure, but as recreation, so connections and directness are poor.

    but, yes, just tossing in a bike lane is not the proper solution, it's a bandaid on the way to a complete infrastructure replan. and fuck you Ontario for blocking them and ripping them out

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  • [–] 12 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Unprotected bike lanes are actually worse than nothing so yeah.

    I miss living on the Toronto harbourfront and being able to bike an hour in either direction along the lake with very minimal interactions with cars..

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago

    I hate riding my bike on streets. I’m lucky my area has dedicated bike zones all along the main streets, separated by barriers. I wish more side streets had them, as well. I wish f’in everywhere had them.

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