The Stupidest Bike Lane?
03-27-08, 11:42 AM
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The Stupidest Bike Lane?
Check the video: https://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid1475273846
Pretty stupid. But I'm sure the fine folks of the BF Commuter Forum can come up with better (stupider) examples than this.
Pretty stupid. But I'm sure the fine folks of the BF Commuter Forum can come up with better (stupider) examples than this.
03-27-08, 11:50 AM
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Is that sarcasm? I see worse every day.
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
03-27-08, 12:37 PM
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Is that sarcasm? I see worse every day.
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
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South Columbia Street.jpg
South Columbia Street runs south to north, one way.
Manning Drive is two-way, and gets a lot of traffic.
South Columbia Street has recently been re-striped thusly:
| car | car | BIKE | bus |
Note that this means that cars turning right from westbound Manning Drive will turn into the bus lane, perhaps notice they're in a lane reserved for buses, correct, and trample cyclists as they drive through the bike lane to get to the car lane.
The bike lane ends one block later; that's the entire bike lane on this street.
South Columbia Street runs south to north, one way.
Manning Drive is two-way, and gets a lot of traffic.
South Columbia Street has recently been re-striped thusly:
| car | car | BIKE | bus |
Note that this means that cars turning right from westbound Manning Drive will turn into the bus lane, perhaps notice they're in a lane reserved for buses, correct, and trample cyclists as they drive through the bike lane to get to the car lane.
The bike lane ends one block later; that's the entire bike lane on this street.
03-27-08, 05:04 PM
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Check the video: https://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid1475273846
Pretty stupid. But I'm sure the fine folks of the BF Commuter Forum can come up with better (stupider) examples than this.
Pretty stupid. But I'm sure the fine folks of the BF Commuter Forum can come up with better (stupider) examples than this.
03-27-08, 05:48 PM
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It's a pointless lane, but there are probably hundreds of stupider bike lanes. This guy just happens to have a bully pulpit and a camera and decided to go after a lane he probably rides on every day.
I did like how he's trying to put down the lane and he didn't even mention that this bike lane has everything bad that most bike lanes do; it's entirely in the door zone, and it has no protection or markings against right hooks.
I did like how he's trying to put down the lane and he didn't even mention that this bike lane has everything bad that most bike lanes do; it's entirely in the door zone, and it has no protection or markings against right hooks.
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03-27-08, 06:09 PM
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Funny, my sister used to live on that very block on Westwood. We visited her a couple of times, and I noticed the bike lane, but never realized it was one block long.
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Is that sarcasm? I see worse every day.
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
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03-27-08, 08:48 PM
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That fellow has little to complain about. Bike lanes here have ceased to exist for the last four months.
03-27-08, 09:16 PM
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03-28-08, 07:21 AM
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The cyclist complains that there's no sign the bike lane ends, but take a close look at the :50 sec mark and there's clearly a white "bike lane end" sign. Okay, perhaps it's not so clear since the trees surrounding it need trimming.
The sad thing is that there is a bike shop--Helen's Cycles--on that street somewhere.
The sad thing is that there is a bike shop--Helen's Cycles--on that street somewhere.
03-28-08, 07:25 AM
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Does anyone have a picture of the bike lane heading between Franklin Field and CHOP in Philly at 34th st? That one comes to mind.
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Good show. My pet peeve of a lane is one built in my area to allow bikes and peds to avoid a very steep road connecting a housing area to shops, hospitals and public transit. So poorly built that after the Jan 1, 2006 flood a 20' semi-circular chunk of it slid into a creek over the next year. I made sure the City and the local bike activists knew of the damage but no action so far.
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The bike lane up 8th Ave in Manhattan is a good candidate. It runs along the left side of the road, as is normal in Manhattan. It stops without warning at 40th street, to be replaced by a two-lane taxi line in front of Port Authority Bus Terminal. I have no idea what a bicyclist is supposed to do there (some veer to the right and either take a lane or dart between the cars stopped at the light at 41st or 42nd; others go straight and dash between pedestrians and the taxis; it's like an obstacle course). The bike lane resumes at 42nd.
03-28-08, 08:43 PM
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Is that sarcasm? I see worse every day.
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
And every one on this site has it beat: https://homepage.ntlworld.com/pete.me.../April2007.htm
03-28-08, 08:48 PM
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I am not enthusiastic about the southbound counterflow lane that runs along / against the one way close to my home... oncoming cars can see you just fine but cars merging onto the road from your right don't even bother to check for cyclists and quite often don't even stop after seeing their is no oncoming traffic.
It is on my list of lanes to be changed and the only solution I can see is to turn it into a northbound and one way bike lane and have an alternate southbound route put in place.
It is on my list of lanes to be changed and the only solution I can see is to turn it into a northbound and one way bike lane and have an alternate southbound route put in place.
03-30-08, 02:15 PM
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I thought I saved a copy of the picture but it must be on my office computer. A few weeks (months?) ago someone posted a picture of a brick road with the very narrow lane on the right, abutting a three foot drop into a canal or something. It's somewhere on Bikeforums.
03-30-08, 06:59 PM
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haha I remember that. It was outside the USA. I don't remember exactly where.
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My favorite was the one with all the dismount signs and corrugated concrete at regular intervals... the description made me LOL.
03-31-08, 11:54 AM
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Check the video: https://link.brightcove.com/services/...ctid1475273846
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Northfield MN's finest! It may be hard to see the end of the lane, it's all the way back by those garbage cans at the 3rd driveway.
Bonus!! The lane is almost as wide as my Chariot trailer! I believe the painters of the white line thougth the lane looked longer than than it is, due to the illusion of length created by the path's width, or lack thereof.
There are almost 4 whole inches outside of the gutter. Let's hope it doesn't rain!
Bonus!! The lane is almost as wide as my Chariot trailer! I believe the painters of the white line thougth the lane looked longer than than it is, due to the illusion of length created by the path's width, or lack thereof.
There are almost 4 whole inches outside of the gutter. Let's hope it doesn't rain!
