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My city promised similar for several roads, then the mayor hired a construction company he has stake in to build it, then he didn't do any construction and pocketed the money. He's currently under investigation by at least 3 different bodies and at least 50% of town still supports his re-election
How to say a Republican mayor without saying it's a Republican mayor.
This is happening right now on a major road that goes through our city. There are complaints about it daily on our forum. I'm getting tired of reading it.
Until it's actually built, don't count on it. NIMBYs will fight tooth and nail every chance they get. Even after it's built there will be a constant barrage of unfounded complaints about how it hurts traffic flow and makes it more dangerous for drivers. Show up to your city council meetings and make sure to hold them accountable for their promises.
Hope more cities do this. Separating bike lanes makes a ton of sense. Bike commuting was stressful sometimes knowing the only thing between me and 4,000lbs of metal was a painted line.
Also would notice a good number of tailpipes faced towards the bike lane, which sort of negates the health benefit of biking to work.
oh my god i fuckin wish. half of my city is straight up inaccessible on bike unless you want to drive on the roads and get killed by distracted motorists.
Please, I can only become so erect
Lemme whisper in your ear, "The sidewalks are getting redone with paver stones, the intersections are getting raised to sidewalk level, and the bike lanes will connect directly with a larger protected bike lane network and directly to an in-progress new automated light metro station that will have 2.5-minute headways."
If you can't impeach whoever was responsible for this barbaric decision, democracy will have failed.
In this case, civil war will be the only solution.
I know which side I'll be in for that civil war. Unlike you, I'm already serving in the strategic nuclear Navy. Come and fucking get it.
Why does the best one have to be about them taking something away from someone else?
That just rubs me wrong.
Other than that I liked it though.
If you take my city as an example: everything is build around cars, we don't have any bike lanes. To fix this, they painted those dottet lines on the road, easy to ignore for drivers.
The knowledge that they have to take away space from car infrastructure to repurpose it for sidewalks and bikelanes would be a huge step, because there is simply no other solution. Every expertise the city ordered is saying it, but they still won't except the facts and try to weasel out with those painted bike lanes.
So in general you are right, one shouldn't be happy when your gain is based on another beings loss. But in infrastructure planing terms it would simply make the city a better place for everyone.
The fact car infrastructure was built in cities is usually already based on a loss for others. This is just taking it back.