I hate how car centric infrastructure makes walking out of your house and into a bus really dangerous.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    I think what we’re trying to say is that your suggestion is not an improvement. It increases risks to cyclists, doesn’t protect pedestrians, and only serves to improve car throughput which is not a priority.

    Enforcement and heavy penalties for breaking what is already the law would be good, as would be a dedicated bus lane, protected sidewalks, installing speed governors on all vehicles limiting them to 30kph… there are lots of options that would clearly improve safety, and you’re advocating for the one that doesn’t help anyone but selfish drivers.

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        No, you’re making excuses for selfish drivers when a wide variety of cheap, practical options are available that will save lives.

        • Enforce existing laws
        • Create a dedicated bus lane
        • Introduce traffic calming
        • Limit car speeds
        • Ban fucking cars

        OK, maybe that last one is impractical in car sewer towns, but your plan of creating a sacrificial bike lane would only get cyclists killed and allow drivers to go faster.

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            • You proposed a bad idea
            • Two people pointed out the many reasons why it was a bad idea.
            • You responded to this by ignoring the reasons why we said this was a bad idea, repeating your original demonstrably flawed idea.

            …and you’re annoyed that we felt we needed to repeat ourselves.