I wouldn't mind too much. Just gonna take me a few minutes to get up to merging speed.
That's why we call those type of "bike lanes" a murder strip.
Have them where I live too.
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All around Vic, too. They generally don't even put in a bike lane, just say "use the emergency lane". Here's a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:
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This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.
The shoulder is the emergency lane. It's where drivers pull over into if there's an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.
There used to be a sign "helping" cyclists already on the freeway by telling them "cross here with care":
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But it was obliterated by a vehicle:
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I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.
4PWQ2WR3+MQ here's a plus code for ye (apparently Google's open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)
Looks like the meme was made from this twitter post.
https://imgur.io/HSVYA2H
It's basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.
Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!
I'm not sure if this is just hilariously optimistic, or some kind of sinister and deliberate murder-by--urban-planning
the first one would be my guess. They just haven't thought it through remotely
I mean, it's an example of cars fucking over bikes. Relevant enough imo
