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Atlanta's New Bike Barriers Are Flipping Cars and That's a Good Thing (www.motorbiscuit.com)
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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago

The article got it right:

Painted bike lanes offer absolutely no physical protection for cyclists if a distracted driver drifts over the white line. While a car climbing a concrete divider looks like an infrastructure failure, it is actually the barrier successfully absorbing an impact that otherwise would have struck whoever was riding in the bike lane.

I just hope that anybody found on top of one of those barriers has their license revoked. Give them the option to go to court to try to get it back. Maybe a kid ran into the street and they chose to hit the barrier rather than the kid. But, the presumption should be that if you're up on that barrier you're not a safe driver and shouldn't have a license.

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