Or Fitotrack, which has an even nicer dashboard (with horrible colors, unfortunately) to screenshot and send to friends to brag (not that I’d ever do that ^__^)
I’m so sick of seeing “new driver please be patient” stickers. I get I live in a car state (CA), but honestly those folks worry me the most. We really need stricter laws about driving and better yet more rigorous testing of new drivers. Like your first test should reflect the most grueling driving day you’d experience in the state. should take all day and even do a night time course. We need to be sure these new drivers aren’t going to hit anything before they are allowed the "privilege " of sharing our roads. Dead squirrels could just as easily be dead kids.
The drivers in these two cases were 60 and 23, respectively. I’m not sure why this rant fits here?
Every driver was once a new driver. They all have to learn to drive on real roads. There’s no way around that. The stickers are intended to encourage other cars to not harass them in situations they may already be finding stressful. They exist precisely because not-new drivers are often impatient and are prone to making the situation worse because of it. If the stickers raise your blood pressure, take a step back and give yourself a good talking to.
Driver training should be better, of course. A compulsory 1000 miles by bicycle and another 2000 on a motorbike before being allowed behind the wheel would be the simplest place to start. Cyclists and motorcyclists make safer drivers.
True headline should be: "Traffic light that had a bike chained to it in middle of street"
Look, I'm on board with the "fuck cars" movement, but this is a shit article and a shit clickbait headline. No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.
Planned maintenance? Wind or extreme weather? Random act of god? The only thing we got is a December 2022 tweet from a guy called "Bike Lane Uprising" with a picture of a pole in the road.
it appears the wind also carefully scattered car debris around the stump of the lamp post in the second photo contained in that tweet. i guess it was covering its tracks, trying to throw us off its scent.
but if u, like, need SUPER EVIDENCE PROOF to believe that, uh, cars are dangerous and run into things in the same place all the goddam time, here you go
Thanks for proving my point. If the video was that easy to find, why wasn't it included in the article? Read my comments, I'm not arguing the incident, I'm arguing against shitty clickbait.
Yes, exactly, provide proof or it's just a claim. That's it. We're circlejerking over a shitty clickbait article based off a tweet that provides no additional information. We can do better than this.
i... i'm not circlejerking over anything. the same thing happened in my city to the ghost bike of a good good man. this shit is very sad and extremely sucks.
look i'm sorry that Canadian Cycling Magazine doesn't meet your journalistic standards or whatever, but "this is clickbait" is a very weird reaction to this article. sometimes the tweet is all the information there is and publishing it elsewhere helps inform people who are not on twitter--of whom i am one, and was one back in december, 2022 when the op's article was published.
at this point, i think you're actually mad about something else. i don't know what that is, but a normal reaction to someone taking the time to answer you questions about veracity is, "oh, thanks" and not... whatever this is.
(ps: it's interesting to me that you called BLU "a guy." it feels kind of like calling the ACLU "a guy.")
When this happened it was all over Chicago biking twitter. If I recall correctly there eventually emerged a video of the driver running a red light and plowing through the pedestrian island into the pole. If someone was on the pedestrian island at the time they would’ve been killed. This crosswalk has been extremely dangerous for years and there’s been lots of protests and action to try to get the city to fix it.
No info here other than some random-ass tweet claiming there had been an accident.
I’m assuming you read the article, but it doesn’t appear that you did.
Ghost bikes are put up as a reminder of the loss of life in that specific area. Most normal people would see a Ghost Bike and kind of get this slap to the brain to drive like people lives are at stake. The fact that someone in a car crashed into that reminder is the whole irony of the story.
I did read the article. Show me where that fact was stated. Because it wasn't, and that's my complaint. All they had was was a 10 month old tweet with pole in the road.
“In April, the family of Marciales created a ghost bike memorial in his honour. Ghost bikes are a reminder to both motorists and other cyclists of the tragic loss of a cyclist due to collisions from drivers. The white bike was chained to street light in the middle of the roadway, right where he was hit.
On Sunday, someone noticed that a motorist had hit the memorial. “There’s been another crash at Balbo and lakeshore drive. Someone hit the light pole. Gerardo’s ghost bike and the pole are in the middle of the street,” Bike Lane Uprising tweeted.”
Unfortunately, the ghost bikes in my area usually partially block the sidewalk and/or impede maintenance of the infrastructure that is there, making it less safe for everyone. Wish they would stop or find another way.
that “stray bullets” (i.e. moving vehicles) are still a danger to everyone.
I don’t like this expression.
Bullets have relatively low force, that’s why kevlar vests are so effective; the stop penetration and spread the force out. Pretty much the only thing you can do when mis-massed against a car is deflection angles; which relies at least partly on the car’s design.
Bullets are always should only be fired with intent to kill something. A stray bullet still meets its primordial purpose of killing someone; just not the intended target. The intent of a car is to transport, the fact that it is the primary killer of people aged 1-54 is a perversion of its own intent and a disgrace to transport.
Bullets are always should only be fired with intent to kill something. A stray bullet still meets its primordial purpose of killing someone; just not the intended target. The intent of a car is to transport, the fact that it is the primary killer of people aged 1-54 is a perversion of its own intent and a disgrace to transport.
It is when the majority (drivers) don’t want them. I once asked a city rep why we allowed people in our bike lanes, and the answer I got was that you either allow people to park in bike lanes, or you don’t get bike lanes.
Citing that people will complain to no end if the idea of more cycling infrastructure is mentioned. Motorists are far too entitled, and their feelings have far too much sway, in my opinion.
That’s crazy though, because most drivers hate cyclists slowing everything down. Having lanes dedicated for them would fix that by getting them out of the way.
It is crazy. Nearly all cycling infrastructure comes with benefits to both cyclists AND motorists.
And with cars getting bigger (while lanes remain the same width), it’s a constant battle for space, but cyclists are told to “share the road” like we’re the ones taking up all the space!
Some of the blame here lies with media depictions of cyclists as arrogant, inconsiderate, etc. But those lies would never stick if it weren’t for the shoddy infrastructure that puts cyclists and cars in the same spaces when they should be kept separate.
It’s literally not possible to ride my bike home from work without going through traffic on one of the busiest streets. They force us into the car traffic and then portray us as getting in the way. It’s infuriating
You make a fine point. If they can’t get their act together to prevent school shootings, expecting them to protect vulnerable road users is probably unrealistic.
It’s a shitty situation because at the same time public transportation is absolutely fucking hot garbage outside of a few large cities. Some sort of regulation needs to happen though
Tatsächlich ist bei uns in Bielefeld ein Argument, welches gegen den Bau eines Protected Bikelane auf einer vierspurigen Straße (Arthur-Ladebeck-Straße) angebracht wurde, dass dann die Feuerwehr im Berufsverkehr nicht mehr durchkommt. Als ob die Feuerwehr die Spur nicht befahren könnte und die Fahrradfahrer*innen keinen Platz machen würden, wenn da ein Einsatzfahrzeug mit Blaulicht hinter ihnen fährt…
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