Nice and cool commute in to work this morning.

Over the weekend, the city painted lines on one of my commuting roads to create a bike lane (technically, not a bike lane as it didn't have the bike and diamond symbol in it, technically, it is just is just an edge line but that's better than what was there before, nothing). I took a video of my ride and will put in on YT for the city staff to see that I'm using and appreciating the road.

However, in response to the wish of the residents on that road, a few years ago, the city installed some traffic calming "structures" to reduce the speed of traffic on that road. These structures include an island and two bump-outs (where the curb and boulevard/grass has been curved into the road to narrow the road). These structures, even before the edge line painting, are somewhat dangerous for cars and cyclists as the narrowing forces them together in a smaller space and it is not uncommon for me to hear a car accelerating behind me to race me to the narrowing and get through it ahead of me. This happened yesterday but I didn't have my SJCam 4000 (a GoPro wanna-be) on me so it wasn't recorded but I think I'll continue recording my cycling along this road to show the city that it happens and that they really need to do something about it (even installing more traffic humps as those do slow traffic but don't really affect cyclists too much).

Long post, sorry.

Have a great day!