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Attached: 1 video I was cleaning out some old video files and I came across this gem from Associate Professor Brian Doucet at the UofW School of Planning (bmdoucet on the bad site). This was taken in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada the city where I went to University. It boggles my mind that Canadian traffic engineering can be so broken that something like this gets built. How did nobody along the path to getting this created say, "why are we building it like this when you'd have to be fucking insane to cycle here?"
  • n2burns@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Up until 3 years ago, I lived in KW. I agree this is insane and completely avoid biking on these lanes. However, whenever this picture pops up on social media, I always question what would have been a better option?

    • Should they just not have put in bike lanes? They are useful on either side of the overpass.
    • Should the bike lanes be centre running? They could run beside the LRT, but I know centre running bike lanes present a bunch of new problems.
    • Something else?

    Here’s the location on Google Maps, if anyone wants to poke around.

    I would love to see dedicated bike infrastructure to cross the expressway, but I don’t see that happening in the short/medium-term. There aren’t any other nearby crossing, though the next one south of here is okay~ish.

    • wieson@feddit.de
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      6 months ago

      My idea for a quick fix would be

      • make the whole length of the bikeway interchange 30 km/h
      • add those hemisphere buttons onto the road surface that are not as intrusive as speed bumps but notify the driver to pay attention and make it uncomfortable to speed up
      • those buttons need to be alongside the bikeway on the line at least. But preferably protruding into half the neighbouring lane
      • ban SUVs :) (jk, unless…)
  • mtchristo@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I struggle to comprehend how people were paid to design this demagoguery.