It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection.
this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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I agree, if cyclists are actively do construction work that requires them to be in the car lane, they should close the lane off. It would be absurd to suggest otherwise.
The amount of space between the worker in the street and the cones is much wider than the space afforded by the barriers they are installing.
Yea, because they're doing construction in the car lane. I suppose they maybe didn't need the whole lane closed. They could have just closed half of it, because that makes sense. Comparing construction workers camping in the road to cyclists riding along side it is why this is such a shit argument.
Look up the size of bike lanes in Denmark ... we can do so much better! You're brainwashed into thinking this little sliver of space is enough protection. And also, these are almost certainly activists and not construction workers, so I'm not upset at them, they're placing the protective barriers alongside the existing bike lane because that's way more possible than surreptitiously creating barriers taking up any part of the driving lane.
You are not understanding. This has nothing to do with whether bicycle lanes are big enough, or if those are licensed construction workers. All that matter is that there are people doing construction work that overflows into the car lane, and the only sane thing to do is close the whole lane. My response is entirely in response to what OP posted and captioned. I do think that bike lanes could be wider and better protected, but that's not what this post is saying.
🙄 they could have closed half a lane, you see that all the time. They felt the need to have extra space, just as the cyclists feel when riding in the bike lane. If you want to say that bike lanes could be wider, just say that... the debate bro energy doesn't lead to anything
Functionally there is no difference between them closing half the lane and closing the full lane because cars still can't use half a lane. Closing half would therefore be really dumb as it only invites confusion.
Half a lane gives some space to merge, it's super common around construction sites idk what to tell you
Fair enough, I've never once seen this hence my absolutism.