I think we should join all those metal boxes together end to end, enlarge the space within, place them all on a track and make it run on a schedule. Just pitching ideas here, what do you guys make of it?
Ah, the good old Adam Something trick! In the end everything can become a train!
I also always love these long ass comment chains where people optimise any problem / solution for traffic/transport until it becomes a train.
What is this, Communalism?
150 cars locking up several buses and an ambulance, no less.
God I hate the assholes that can’t even stay in the lines when atopped.
Bicycles FTW
But fuck those motorbikes in the bicycle lane
I thought that’s what this was at first, then I realized the video is just sped up.
I’m from Arvada CO and I’m allowed to drive my Honda ruckus in bike lanes on the road since I’m 50ccs or less, I never see actually bikes though, feels as if all ebikes just use the sidewalk lol
Well there’s not a motorbike lane, and it’s a bit safer than lane-splitting, so we can share. It’s not like OP is blasting past bicycles doing faster than a fast bicycle can.
But also I’m 99% sure that’s a bicycle.
Oh I know it’s a bicycle in the video. I mean I was almost hit by a motorbike in the bicycle lane few months ago
All those school busses indicates this is at maximum possible congestion condition time.
The blocks around my kids school become an instant popup blockade for about 30 minutes everyday.
Public transit options are so necessary.
It also ends at road works
Yeah, we are about a mile from my kids’ elementary school, so I drive about halfway to the school and walk the rest with them, because I just have zero interest in being stuck in the chaos that is that last quarter mile. Plus, I feel good having them walk a bit to get to school, I like to think it’ll get them both used to being on foot more. My older one walks one day a week in a group about a mile to school. The younger one is four, and I have zero expectation that he’d do the entire walk, and even less expectation that we’d get there on time.
Have you thought about a bike bus? A Mile bike ride is very doable if the roads aren’t terrible.
Besides a bike bus, if it’s just one or 2 kids a well done cargo bike will get them there easily. A mile bike ride is doable even with horrifyingly bad roads.
Meanwhile in my city: passed cars: 1. The second car is already blocking the bike lane for mysterious reasons and you cannot get around. Then first right turn possibility: all the cars turn right without watching out for bikes. Then the light is red again. Maybe you can make it alive during the next green phase 🥲
I like this feeling when I take the bike.
This was my favorite thing to think about back when I lived somewhere bikable
If I ride in peak hour the most blocked up road is quite downhill so you fly past many cars
But I don’t like riding in peak hour, as crossing entrance ramps is slow and crossing exit ramps is frightening, though the great bulk of drivers are careful around bikes
I used to leave my house at 4:30am to get to work for 6.
I watched the sun rise most mornings, the streets would be dead. Then around Christmas time, suddenly cars would be out on my roads… yes my roads lol. I’d curse them, because they would scare me doing 50mph+ right by me. I rode in winter, and I swear one time this fucker was trying to play chicken with me or something. I had to maneuver very quickly, he watched me dump my bike on some ice, and then suddenly was able to speed pass me as he watched me fall.
Absolutely, I was always faster with my bike inside the outer city ring, mainly because I saved looking for a parking space. Now? Not so much. My commute is 50km across the mountains, 45 minutes by car, three hours by bike if I take the electric one.
They passed alot more cars than that as it is only counting the right lane here
😭
The fools! The cowards! We should take away their metal boxes!
*METAL BAWKSES
Thought I’d have to scroll past the Omnissiah’s blessed tits before I found this.
All well and good if you can afford to live in a city. Commuted by bike for a decade. Commuted by train+bike for a few years. I honestly never wanna get on a bike again. Maybe a train if it’s fast.
I started commuting by bike. I’ve never enjoyed commuting more.
Not all cities are expensive, and they usually offer higher wages to compensate.
Enjoy it while you enjoy it.
Your experience is not universal. As my dad has done before me, I will bike my entire life and will always enjoy it more than driving
I drove for 2 years hating every single commute.
“afford to live in a city” is such a violently american sentence it just gave me heartburn
Not sure what you want me to do about that. Most cities are overpriced because of corpo-controlled properties and greedy private landlords. Biking as commute option is only viable if you live in a large urban area.
There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.
Also it’s not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ… or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.
A few observations:
- That’s a fuck-ton of distance for 150 cars.
- “One more lane, bro” wouldn’t make a goddamn difference.
- We really need bike lanes… on every road.
The cars aren’t standing still.
Those brake lights tell a different story. Still, what are we talking… a 1 or 2 km length of road for 150 cars to be passed by a single cyclist? Such an inefficient use of space.
Say the cars are 4.5m long each, 150 cars long half a metre between them for 650m, so quite likely 1km given the roughness of my estimates
True, there’s that one point where the cyclist doesn’t pass any cars because they’re all completely stopped. It’s also true that the rate of passing is completely the same the entire time because all the brake lights are on.
Imagine how many other bike riders we would have if bike lanes weren’t this terrifying
I had the same thought. It looked pretty tame to me, but I’m an experienced cyclist. It must look harrowing if you haven’t cycled much, especially with the sped up video. Those of us “in the know” get the point op is trying to make, and in this space it’s probably 99% of us, but I have to wonder if these kinds of posts hurt more than they help.
I think they help.
We just also need to encourage physical barriers for bike lanes instead of paint and good faith.
A fun game for cyclists : it’s called The Race. I think there were rules somewhere on the internet. I’ve forgotten the details but this is basically how it goes.
- You get 1 point every time you pass a “slow” bike: people who are taking their time, old contraptions, etc
- 2 pts for decent bikes
- 3 points for cyclists in racing attire
- 4 points for electric bikes
- 5 points for cars
You lose the same amount every time you get passed
On good days I can easily get in the thousands with all the cars commuting. Makes me feel so good.
How many points for busses? Trains?
Where I am, cyclists and busses share the same lane, so it would be extra hard to pass one. 20 points?
Passing a train would make you the king/queen of bicycle forever
cable car?
dirigible?
I can’t imagine riding in a cable car lane. I’d be terrified of my tires getting stuck in the recessed tracks. Plus there are plenty of videos of cable cars mowing down drivers who were in their lane, with absolutely zero fucks given. At least the drivers have a cage.
I can’t imagine riding in a cable car lane.
It was like that in DC when they introduced the H Street streetcar. All those issues and more. There are ways to make the tracks safer for skinny tires, but they either couldn’t find the money or just weren’t listening. This was a while back, and I don’t live there anymore, so I’m not sure if anything was improved.
I used to cross the Manhattan Bridge in NYC on my commute, sometimes the Q or D train would emerge out of the tunnel onto the bridge just as I was coming up the bike ramp and it was a really fun challenge to try racing it up to the apex. If you can manage to pace it on the uphill, you’ll always pass it on the downhill, and then come ripping off the bridge at near 30 mph.
