Ah yes, the ol' "this project is stupid because it isn't finished yet" argument. 🙄
By the way:
and then are inevitably lucky if you see anyone using them.
That's often not because they aren't being used; it's because bike lanes have 2-3x the capacity of general-purpose lanes. They look a lot less busy even when they're carrying the same number of vehicles.
Yes, actually. I'm not inclined to dig through my comment history to find it, but a while back, somebody posted an image of a street in the UK and complained that hardly anybody used the bike lane. I counted, and pointed out that in that very image, there were more humans in the bike lane than in the car lane. It just looked empty because cars are such a tremendous waste of space.
As soon as I got a bike path near my home that led to my grocery store, I stopped driving to the grocery store. This only happened when two bike routes were linked together, since I live off an arterial street. You either have to be willing to put in a huge stretch of bike lanes all over, all at once, or be willing to put up with a few stretches of underutilized bike lane until enough are added that they become usable. With your mindset, you could never go from no bike support to having bike supporting infrastructure.
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Aliktren@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 184d
grue@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 184d
Ah yes, the ol' "this project is stupid because it isn't finished yet" argument. 🙄
By the way:
That's often not because they aren't being used; it's because bike lanes have 2-3x the capacity of general-purpose lanes. They look a lot less busy even when they're carrying the same number of vehicles.
Aliktren@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 184d
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 184d
Yes, actually. I'm not inclined to dig through my comment history to find it, but a while back, somebody posted an image of a street in the UK and complained that hardly anybody used the bike lane. I counted, and pointed out that in that very image, there were more humans in the bike lane than in the car lane. It just looked empty because cars are such a tremendous waste of space.
Carrot@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 183d
As soon as I got a bike path near my home that led to my grocery store, I stopped driving to the grocery store. This only happened when two bike routes were linked together, since I live off an arterial street. You either have to be willing to put in a huge stretch of bike lanes all over, all at once, or be willing to put up with a few stretches of underutilized bike lane until enough are added that they become usable. With your mindset, you could never go from no bike support to having bike supporting infrastructure.