• Evkob@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    Sure, but most people who drive aren’t firefighters at the helm of fire engines.

    • lntl@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      Yes and the requirements often impact infrastructure decisions. For example:

      Years ago there was a bike path that was proposed to be added onto the Verrazano bridge in NYC. NYFD required it be wide and strong enough for a firetruck to traverse it and the project died. The only way to get a bicycle across the bridge without a car nowadays is once a year when they shut it down for an hour for a cycling event or on an MTA bus.