Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Oh please, there is no "illusion of protection!"
Do you hear fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap fwap behind you? TIME TO WORRY.
Otherwise, you don't have to check your rearview mirror every couple of seconds to see if the person driving the car is about to run you over.
There is no "illusion" here, except for your illusion that these are a danger to people on bikes.
BTW, in case you want to drop a dime on this grave assault on cyclist safety, Streetview captured the perps last month:
Next, check out this "immovable barrier" to motor traffic.
First pic is from the day after install was completed in December 2013, with evidence of the first of many automobiles damaged by their drivers. Somebody thought they were on a ski slope?
The latest incident is from the end of this summer, though this might not be done by a driver. I can't rule out tactical urbanism by the limbo alliance.
(In between, too many strikes to count.)
-mr. bill
The more I thought about the idea that those tire deals would be hard for a cyclist to see, the sillier it seemed. Frankly, bicyclists have to evade obstacles that are much harder to see than that on pretty much any given city block. Those things would be absolutely conspicuous in comparison to any pothole, rock, broken bottle, stray bolt, crack in pavement, or any of the thousand other things we're constantly scanning the pavement for. Someone who couldn't see those in time to evade running over them wouldn't last a mile riding just about anywhere.