Don’t worry everyone. I know the area and that bike lane is 100% happening. Maybe not precisely the proposed route but it’ll be going somewhere. The council has already closed an extremely busy road for six months so they could demolish and rebuild a bridge to get the bike lane in, there ain’t no way they’re letting a few whinging locals block it now.
Good.
Carbrains need to grow the fuck up and share the road.
Why are there random words missing in the article?
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
Who fears that? Or is "fear" the subject of that sentence?
The proposed route will Sean Neely's front door, he added.
What?
Guessing because it's the BBC and British people have a slightly different version of English.
Preaching to the choir here, but I'll keep repeating: any journalist that gives the cost of a transit project but doesn't do the same for how much money is spent on roads is performing propaganda. Particularly in this case, when I'd be willing to bet that 90% of the project cost is actually rebuilding the roads for cars, not putting in the bike lanes.
If I buy a horse, I don’t get to go to the city and complain I don’t have anywhere to graze my horse. You’re not entitled to free government land to store your car
She said: "I really don't think it's been thought through enough with the size of the roads and the parking, where is everybody going to park?"
Further away.
And then walk. :)
"...where is everybody going to park?"
What if you had transport options that didn't require to you have to park?
No car payment.
No expensive insurance requirements.
No downtime due to inconvenient auto repairs.
Absolute crazy talk.
Now i can't park right next to where i need to go and might have to... Walk.
The same guy probably want a huge mansion where all they do is...walk.
Well if you can't drive from your living room's couch to your bathroom, is it really a mansion?
THE HORROR!!!!
Oh no!!!
that bike lane placement does look fucking stupid
It's something that happens when cities insist on prioritising reducing how much it annoys car drivers over producing the best possible active transport infrastructure. They build these bidirectional bike paths down one side of the street instead of having a bike path on each side. And that inevitably means that sometimes you're going to get this.
Pretty sure that's by design, so they can point and say, "See? We told you, bike lanes don't work!"
Idk about that. I can only speak to my experience, but when you combine all modes of transportation it can be difficult to arrange the intersection. There are often trade offs to be made and safety is always a priority.
This is UK? So I’m not sure, but it looks like the side streets have a combination of one way and parking. TBH it looks similar to what we do, but they curved the bike channelization instead of making it straight and dashed like we’re starting to do in the US. Not wrong, just different I guess.
and we’re just not happy about it
Very nice attempt of manipulation public opinion, it sounds her statement represents a vast amount of people 🤦♂️
Original title:
Fears new cycle lane will cause huge disruption
I hate those car-brained parking-space-heads.
A place to discuss problems of car centric infrastructure or how it hurts us all. Let's explore the bad world of Cars!
1. Be Civil
You may not agree on ideas, but please do not be needlessly rude or insulting to other people in this community.
2. No hate speech
Don't discriminate or disparage people on the basis of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, or sexuality.
3. Don't harass people
Don't follow people you disagree with into multiple threads or into PMs to insult, disparage, or otherwise attack them. And certainly don't doxx any non-public figures.
4. Stay on topic
This community is about cars, their externalities in society, car-dependency, and solutions to these.
5. No reposts
Do not repost content that has already been posted in this community.
Moderator discretion will be used to judge reports with regard to the above rules.
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags: