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Old 06-04-21 | 08:29 PM
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Originally Posted by tcs
Aaaaaand on June 10th the world's most expensive bike bridge, the Santiago Calatrava-designed, $122,000,000 Margaret McDermott over the Trinity River is set to open (just five years late).

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburne...ns-next-month/

All that money, all that time, and neither end of the bridge is really connected to any other bike infrastructure.
That's typical of most cycling infrastructure in the D/FW area and pretty much everywhere. It's just a hodge-podge of painted lines, bike icons and signs slapped on top of existing infrastructure.

But, hey, it enables the city to check off some boxes on a livability checklist when wooing new businesses to set up shop in the Metroplex. Most of Fort Worth's "bike lanes" are actually door zone/kill zones, between curbside parking and streets. But it's something the city could do quickly while trying to lure Amazon to park that promised alternate headquarters here.

The best cycling infrastructure is driver education and consequences for negligent driving.
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