After the berms were installed, drivers complained that they were difficult to see, so they were hitting them
So they are telling us that they were driving on the cycling lane all this time, and those things make it difficult to do so
Watching that video, you can tell the mayor hates bikes and is part of the anti-bike crowd. "Bicyclists told us they hate these new lanes", except that's probably just the mayor's friend Bob who only rode for 10 minutes one day, so they could make this claim. They should have to prove there's really a lot of cyclists pushing for this before the city spends money undoing anything. From what I saw, this would be a huge improvement in my town and I would dig it.
This bullshit again, the “barriers” were folding markers and parking space bumpers. Local riders mostly disliked them since the bumpers wouldn’t stop any cars anyways and just create less control for everyone involved. If the dumbass city council did it right there wouldn’t have been an issue but they half assed it and got hate from both sides. Good riddance.
My city put up bike lanes on one street. The traffic here is already so bad and they took up a lane to put them there.
It ended up causing massive amounts of traffic and they removed them after about 6 months.
I think the problem was that they caused congestion coming off of a road that people use to get off the main highway and to the business district of my city.
I’ve literally never seen a bike there as it’s mostly corporate buildings and banks and it’s a tropical country. No one is going to ride a bike to that kind of job here.
Additionally, they were just used by motorcycles, so it would be unsafe for bikes anyway.
In my home city they installed bike lanes on the passenger side of the car parks on the sides of the road between the foot path. Cost a great deal.
Then cyclists kept getting knocked over by passengers opening their doors into cyclists so months later they removed them all.
Government efficiency at its finest
They did this in my neighborhood as well. They created "safe routes to school" (name of the initiative). Locals complained until the city ripped them back up.
Ah, there's your problem. The hardware is too new, and the OS keeps malfunctioning.
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This bullshit again, the “barriers” were folding markers and parking space bumpers. Local riders mostly disliked them since the bumpers wouldn’t stop any cars anyways and just create less control for everyone involved. If the dumbass city council did it right there wouldn’t have been an issue but they half assed it and got hate from both sides. Good riddance.
This coordinated war on bike lanes sure is curious. All of a sudden, different cities, states, provinces are all working to remove bike lanes. Almost like there’s someone coordinating it all.
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