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which san jose? the capital of costa rica? or the city in california?
Probably california cuz Americans have main character syndrome.
Imagine that: bike lanes!
Yes please. Many more.
Keeps surprising me on Lemmy how disproportionately large the bicyclist population seems to be on here.
I don’t really ride but I live in an area where if you were to ride your bike on a street you’d be killed. I’d like the exercise and also to save on trumps fuel prices.
Nice to see some normal news and signs of a normal life carrying on in the US. So sick of the constant cultural winging coming from a certain House in that country.
The planters might be a nice touch.
Holy crap, 5$ for twenty minutes of bike sharing? I hope police is investigating that robbery!
Curb.
It’s a curb.
I’d still take a curb over just paint.
But yeah, definitely should be 3 or 4 feet tall minimum.
No defense of the poor drivers, but I do worry that infrastructure like this doesn’t get maintained. Visibility is a critical part of its function.
Towards the end they say they may be adding reflective thingies.
If we assume it didnt get maintained, still better than cyclists dying
I’d be happy with concrete curbs where I live. I hate those stupid white plastic toothpicks my city puts up.
No bueno. Need to get rid of the car parking or move it to the sidewalk. Bikes can’t be hidden behind cars. Protected elevated bicycle lanes should be in the middle, replacing the turn lane. They need to see and be seen. This is dangerous at all driveways and intersections.
finally, snackysnacks!
great, now cyclists can be safe in 0.000000000000000000001% of San Jose…
do you even know how big that city is? if you’re not from the bay area, do not try to guess based on the size of San Francisco! SJ may not have a huge population but it is extremely the opposite of dense.
Downtown is dens**er** but still not very dense. the whole downtown area is basically 6 square blocks! exaggerating… but really there is only like 5 high-rises, can’t even be called skyscrapers.
tl;dr - DO MORE, SAN JOSE!!! (you still owe me for my one bike that was stolen and the wheel [almost my leg] that got ran over by and old lady in a Honda when i was at an intersection… i should’ve thrown the remaining bike on her windshield…)
Young lady, indignant:
“I’ve already hit the curb three separate times”
“I don’t think they were needed”
Girl, YOU’RE THE REASON THEY’RE THERE!!!
We all instantly realized this ahaha
OK here’s the upliftingnews take (beyond charitable): curb-height stuff is easier to hit than bicycle-height objects and she’d only do the former
Reminded of this:
Anyway someone grab her keys ;)
The complete lack of self-awareness.
Absolutely insane
Exactly! If she can’t be trusted to protect her (oversized) car, then she can’t be trusted with a cyclist or a pedestrian!
She was a moron, but that wasn’t an oversized car (which makes it worse). Imagine the damage she’d do in an SUV.
She should… curb her enthousiasm.
I went to Hawaii with my wife’s family a while back, my sister-in-law kept complaining about speed bumps in a part of the road there that’s 35 mph. She kept complaining because she kept hitting them at 60 miles an hour and we kept having to tell her they’re there because of you.
There’s some rural highway intersections near where I live that have been getting the stop signs replaced with roundabouts and similarly people keep complaining because they have to slow down but these are intersections that happen to have frequent fatal collisions because people aren’t slowing down. One of them has already had multiple single vehicle collisions where a driver just blasted into the center of the roundabout so the roundabout is clearly working at forcing traffic to calm down a little
Some people be treating the gas pedal like an on off switch…
For the ignorant driver that clearly shouldn’t be driving if you already hit a brand new curb 3 times:
I read the title and thought they were literally blocking the bike lanes with concrete barriers. Apparently I’m a little too used to anti-pedestrian actions by municipalities…
Same! I’m so used to seeing hostile architecture designs, and consequently posts and people calling out those designs as awful, that I just assumed that’s what it was.
Which probably speaks to my echo chamber a bit, but I think also speaks to the fact that at least my echo chamber is one that wishes for less hostility and general evilness in the world, so yay?
Make them bigger, when a truck tries to go over them the wheel should break
Hedges or trees would also work, they look nicer.
I have mixed feelings. Hedges and trees block vision. They can be done well, but I have seen a lot of places where they made traffic less safe.
Trees and hedges are mostly safer than concrete and (as someone else pointed out already) can be implemented in a way that does not interfere with visual perception of traffic. Also trees provide shade during summer which is also nice.
Hedges can be low enough that pedestrians are visible. Trees typically have their branches well above car height. So nothing is obscured. Either way, it also reduces noise a bit.
That said, along highways (especially near urban areas), they’re usually much taller, with the roadside having a barrier. A cross section:
homes - mainwalk - bike path - hedge - barrier - road.
Re: @dan1101@lemmy.world , I’d also like to mention that some hedges can be pretty low-maintenance. Here are some that are especially for roads.
Top illustration is what I’m thinking of.
Hedges are also safer than concrete curbs in most cases as they don’t crack your skull open when you land on them in an accident and if someone drives their car into them they function like a cushion. Plus trees give shade in summer which is nice for everyone for several reasons.
Trees give a nice shade canopy and help reduce the noise level of a an otherwise loud city street, plus they can reduce the heat island effect that’s a near constant in our concrete cities
I had a recent trip take me both into Manhattan and the Chicago Loop and it was night and day how loud the one with more mature trees to break up the echoey canyon of concrete and glass was than the other, despite the other having more vehicle traffic at that moment
And they need maintenance
You have to completely tear up the road for those usually, and that takes more time and money. They might have needed to do something similar for these, but it almost looks like they’re placed there. The guy at the end did say they’re looking into planters at least.
That also goes for installing curbs. I’d argue it’s worth doing so, since these hedges also provide a little shade and noise reduction that curbs don’t.
So it’s basically a raised median?
Like… We have raised medians. Drivers navigate roads with raised medians all the time. Maybe that one woman just doesn’t know how to drive very well?
Her logic is hilarious lol. “I don’t think the barriers are needed because I keep hitting them”
Lady… you are the reason they are needed!
So like, ACAB and all but i want to kiss the officer who took away my MIL’s license when she hit one of those barriers and then wandered off into the rain. All the signs of dementia, right? No. She has the munchausens. We had been trying to hide her keys for years and she kept finding them, but she refuses to drive without her license. Dude seriously saved lives that night.
(To the woman): Your issue is that a small swerve can lead to impacting with a solid object that could damage your car. That issue remains regardless. The question is whether you ALSO hurt a person in the process.
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