Whence comes this compulsive need among drivers to have access to every single square inch of pavement

    • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      A normal road would be substantially safer. This is a cyclist assassination attempt in the guise of a civil engineering project.

      • 7bicycles [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I struggle to come up with a better approach to explain the concept of social murder that doesn't veer off into "you have to ride on the HSR-tracks" or other such nonsense

    • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Even normal roads aren't stupid enough to have cars driving literally directly towards each other, and when they have a central turn lane where that might happen, even carbrained americans have enough self-preservation instinct that it got the nickname "suicide lane"

      This is one long suicide lane disguised as a regular road, with the added insanity of being a bigger-than-normal biker deathtrap

      • Venus [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        This should be a tunnel for cars, a bridge for bikes, and an orphanage for puppies where the current road is