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"Every bike could be another car making congestion worse": Cyclists fight to save cycle lanes facing removal due to looming deadline to make temporary bollards permanent
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Every bike in the bike lane should make drivers happy. That's a few seconds they might be saving on their drive. Every bit of research shows adding lanes doesn't seriously make commutes faster, but removing competing traffic surely does.
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quick_snailRemove the bike lanes ffs
And block cars from the whole road. Problem solved.
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This. This every time. I don't know how anyone can ignore this fact.
Even cyclists want to see sidewalks (for pedestrians) when pedestrians are walking in bike lanes because there's nowhere else to walk.
Drivers should want cyclists off the road or in their own lane, as not to be in conflict.
I've noticed drivers seem to think solely about how much money the city spends on them. Car infrastructure is so comically expensive they feel threatened by even a penny going to other modes of transportation, and it's so comically space inefficient they lose their minds when even a meter of the agreed width isn't exclusively dedicated to them.
They also seemingly assume that because they would never choose anything other than their car, no one will.
If drivers were forced to pay the true cost of their car-centric infrastructure, nobody would be able to afford it.
Unless you live in a city/country where transportation is diversified with an emphasis on active and public transportation, I can almost guarantee that your city is running a budget deficit because of car infrastructure.
“Every bike in a bike lane is a bike, making the community better”
Every driver wishes the driver in front of him rides a bike instead.