:sicko-biker: :sicko-biker: :sicko-biker:

edit: let me clarify that I understand biking isn't feasible for everyone or even safe considering how dangerous city streets are. is just funny meme because bikes are cool.

  • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    There are tons of large and relatively large cities in North America that refuse to install any bike lanes at all. Additionally, thanks to the way small to mid size towns are laid out over a huge area based on suburban sprawl so towns with like 20k to 50k people have pretty constant heavy traffic on arterial roads and pretty heavy traffic even on collectors, and often won't even have sidewalks or will ban bicycles from use on sidewalks.

    • Catherine_Steward [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      and often won’t even have sidewalks or will ban bicycles from use on sidewalks.

      This is a big one. Bikes are vehicles and vehicles aren't allowed on sidewalks. Not that it would help much even if that weren't the case, because as you said, often there aren't sidewalks. I see these weird orphaned sidewalks just begin and end next to roads sometimes, maybe like 100m of sidewalk total, starting nowhere and leading nowhere. Otherwise, largely they don't exist at all.

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Yep. The other classic is the fake edge of road "shoulder sidewalks" where they just paint an extra line on the street so now the road is actually not even as wide as the suvs or trucks that make up 99% of the traffic and every time you try and walk down the road you're dodging those fucking giant "tow mirrors" that dudes leave extended so it looks like they actually use the truck.