“The fundamental issue isn’t with bicycles. The problem is when bike lanes are put in, space is taken from the road not the pavement,” Victorian Automotive Chamber of Commerce CEO Geoff Gwilym said.
“The humble car driver is marginalised.”
https://archive.ph/H3Ej7
Edit - Archive is being troublesome today but I promise that link worked a minute ago.
From the mayor's defense of the lanes: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/growth-of-cbd-bike-lanes-a-divisive-issue-for-city-commuters-20220304-p5a1w8.html
When people do drive into the city, the majority park in one of the more than 140,000 private, off-street, multi-storey car-parking spaces that are available in our city. In fact, if you’re in the CBD, you are never more than 200 metres away from a secure off-street car-park.
In total, there are 23,000 on-street parking spaces managed by the City of Melbourne. We have removed 421 of those to make way for protected bike lanes.
Chuds: 1.8% of street parking spaces are gone!!! :frothingfash: The humble car driver is marginalized!
Yep. When I was searching for more info I found a transcript from a radio host saying that "no one" bikes into the city because everyone lives in the outer suburbs, 15-20 kilometers away. (Which, by bike, would still be less than the 65 minute average commute time.) Then I searched density statistics and saw that although there's suburban sprawl, Melbourne, and its central business district, contain the most densely populated areas in Australia.
Stayed with a family friend in Brunswick. We got drunk and he laughed at me for not having a car. Next morning he's walking out with a bike helmet on. "Mate, I'm not paying for parking."
These people have baby brains and only care about things placed right in front of them. Bike lanes are visible.
Babys develop the concept of object permanence which apparently many motorists do not, seeing how we're still dealing with bikes, pedestrians, hell, even other cars "coming out of nowhere"
lol “The humble car driver is marginalised" is exactly what I would put to print if I wanted to signal to my peers that I desperately needed my ass kicked
Ahahahahahahahahaha:
https://archive.ph/H3Ej7
Edit - Archive is being troublesome today but I promise that link worked a minute ago.
From the mayor's defense of the lanes: https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/growth-of-cbd-bike-lanes-a-divisive-issue-for-city-commuters-20220304-p5a1w8.html
Chuds: 1.8% of street parking spaces are gone!!! :frothingfash: The humble car driver is marginalized!
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Yep. When I was searching for more info I found a transcript from a radio host saying that "no one" bikes into the city because everyone lives in the outer suburbs, 15-20 kilometers away. (Which, by bike, would still be less than the 65 minute average commute time.) Then I searched density statistics and saw that although there's suburban sprawl, Melbourne, and its central business district, contain the most densely populated areas in Australia.
Stayed with a family friend in Brunswick. We got drunk and he laughed at me for not having a car. Next morning he's walking out with a bike helmet on. "Mate, I'm not paying for parking."
Babys develop the concept of object permanence which apparently many motorists do not, seeing how we're still dealing with bikes, pedestrians, hell, even other cars "coming out of nowhere"
lol “The humble car driver is marginalised" is exactly what I would put to print if I wanted to signal to my peers that I desperately needed my ass kicked