If you can get the street sweeper to get the bike lane near my house I’ll give you a half a can of chamois butt’r
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conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Day 30 of being fucking bewildered that I, a non-voting member of my city’s bicycle commission, have stricter ethical laws binding me than those for judges and politicians.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’m trying to secure wholly separate bike lanes, or at least flexi-posts, anything but a sharrow or a line of paint. Tbh, I dunno how that’ll work with a street sweeper.
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There are little sidewalk sweepers about the size of golf carts that get used by colleges, it would work perfectly for a bidirectional bike lane.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
The mini sweepers work just fine in both Toronto and Montreal. Heck, in Montreal they clear the bike lanes even in the winter, often better than the roads. Additionally the local bike share is open 365 days a year now, they are equipped with studded tires between November and April.
Curious to hear about your experience.
Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Can you get narrower car lanes? Trying to cross an 8 lane stroad that has 12ft wide lanes in the middle of town is hellish.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I don’t know if I can; it’s not, well, in my lane as a bicycle/pedestrian committee member. I still show up and advocate for lane narrowing and traffic calming at the city council meetings.
rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
They need the small ones, that’s for sure. I would work that into my plan if I were you.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I don’t know. Me and class II bike lanes are not in a good place right now. I’m not saying they don’t have their place, but we’ve got them as narrow ass lanes barely big enough to stand in directly next to arterial traffic doing ~40 mph, no buffer, no rumble strips, no flexible bollards, just paint. This is obviously dangerous infrastructure to anyone who isn’t lying to themselves, and it shows in our injury/fatality rates for cyclists.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s because the politicians make the laws. And they want their judges on the bench to rule in their favor. Laws forcing judges to recuse don’t help the politicians ignore the laws they find inconvenient.