Bike Lanes, C/D?

oh ok
only times i rode the lake path it was like 3am
and at that time it was nobody but me and the occasional drunk
i think i went really really fast

Oh yeah LFP at 3am is classic, don't get me wrong.

PS hey ilx urban cyclists, if yr city has light rail/streetcars, pay extra heed to the tracks. Last night I thought I was crossing the track at enough of a diagonal to make it over. I was not (also it was wet), the front wheel got caught in the tracks, and I now have some very lovely bruises and cuts.

Oh railroad tracks and grates were drummed into us by Dad from the beginning, esp in the rain. He pretty much made us pass a written exam about possible dangers before we were allowed on the streets. I don't think I cross any, ever, now.

They're everywhere in downtown PDX, and it's always raining, so not crossing isn't really an option. I would have been fine if I'd been at more of an angle.

Gotta stop falling on the same side, though. My poor left leg is just covered in scrapes and bruises as of late.

yeah, i always wipe out on the left, it's weird!

really?. some edits for brevity-

In Stone’s rebuttal, she laid out an allegory of sorts, re-telling the three Mandeville Canyon incidents the prosecution presented during the trial.

She’s... at Trader Joe’s. Someone, she said, “is in my aisle, blocking me from my granola. So I blast his nose with a baseball bat.”

“But of course, I get arrested.”

Then, donning a white doctor’s coat, she said, “But I shroud myself in this because I want to deflect what I did.”

i like that metaphor

I WANT MY GRANOLA

i like it too, and... swinging a real bat? a lab coat? neither of which are real evidence?

NITA shit is never that fun.

i'm sure the defense attorney who wrote ACCIDENT on an overhead projector thought he was being clever. then bitch shows up with a bat and a lab coat.

what is NITA

trial advocacy training program for attorneys

"national institute for trial advocacy"

then bitch shows up with a bat and a lab coat.

i hope that dude gets what's coming to him

i mean, i know this is obv and all, but i'm pretty blown away by the fact that this dude is an ER doc

super aggro king of the universe dude is...a doctor? say it ain't so

;-)

gonna stop my car in front of u

take a picture

c'mon level withme, whenever u have a teacher who makes some noise about "you are all to be healers" or w/e, there's a cohort of dudes in the back rolling their damn eyes and making jerky-offy motions

oh totally!

they're all gonna be surgeons, tho

^real talk

wtf is up w/cars passing u w/in 1-2 feet when the other lane is clear for miles ahead

passive-aggressive assholes

See I much prefer that to when cars swerve halfway into the other lane to give me a wide berth. Feels like an excellent way to get into a car accident, debris from which will surely fly out and decapatate me.

i'm still trying to get over my fear of biking at night around here, i known how many folks drive buzzed or drunk in l.a. and i always assume one of these days i'm gonna get clipped by someone who drifts to the right.

See I much prefer that to when cars swerve halfway into the other lane to give me a wide berth.

yeah but i try to be positive to anyone who shows me consideration, even if it is unnecessary or irritating. for instance, NOT passing me when it is completely reasonable for them to do so. they just follow and follow and follow, and OH JUST. FUCKING. PASS. ME, PLEASE. then i think, this fool is trying to do the right thing and is probly annoyed at me. i'll even pull over for them and try to be happy about it.

^^^ i am trying to do this more.

It really is worth doing this if you can, I think, especially if you've just had an encounter which has left you fuming. The problem is, that if you are fuming, you are more likely to ride dangerously (at least I am). Trying to catch up with people who've done something stupid to shout 'oi!' (or worse) at them, shooting lights to get away from an altercation because you're so pumped. You stop thinking about the road because you're so busy thinking about the asshole who tried to shit you up.

Letting someone go over at a pedestrian crossing, waving at a car that doesn't pull out in front of you when it might have, I find helps restore some equilibrium and refocuses me on the road and sensible ideas of shared space.

Aggression on the road makes things less safe for everyone - and not necessarily in just the obvious ways. A driver threatened to kill me recently, after having smashed my face in, it seems, for having had the temerity (and good sense) not to ride in the gutter but in the middle of the lane, as one should if there isn't space for a car to pass safely. Anyway, at the next lights, I thought he was going to get out of his car and carry out of his threats, so instead of queuing safely, I had to filter down a narrow gap on the inside of a bus, a dangerous manoeuvre I would not have otherwise performed.

I was shaking and not really focused on what I was doing. Fortunately all was well, but that sort of behaviour, whether by cyclists or drivers, should be avoided at all costs. Of course, you're going to shout vile names at someone you feel has endangered you, but it's worth returning to as much of a state of zen like calm as quickly possible.

Guilty.

fantastic

No bail.

saw this on cyclingtipsblog o_O
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPtA3Ng6-n8

^^baffling

saw a new bike lane downtown

traffic  |  parking  |  bike lane  |  sidewalk

i like the idea in principal, but i feel like the dooring potential has skyrocketed.

thats what is going on in NYC

http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/IMG_0199-bike-lane_1.jpg

this is the ideal execution of that idea imo, this is from copenhagen.

there's one major copenhagen-style lane in melbourne that i use sometimes. my main observations:

• it goes past a major university on one side and you get idiot students milling around in the bike lane part like it's part of the footpath.
• pedestrians tend to stroll out into the bike lane without looking - they only switch to 'danger!' mode when cars are involved.
• quite thick concrete reservation area between the bike lane and the car parks, where they exist, makes it really hard to get doored, which is a plus.

pedestrians tend to stroll out into the bike lane without looking - they only switch to 'danger!' mode when cars are involved.

god, yes! almost ran some fool over yesterday for this exact same reason.

also what is up with cars overtaking you just so that they can cut across you inside ten yards? again almost ran into the side of a car yesterday who overtook me so she could get access to her driveway 10 metres in front of me. had to slam the brakes hard

also what is up with cars overtaking you just so that they can cut across you inside ten yards?

This happens all the bloody time. With buses as well. Overtaking you and immediately pulling into the bus stop in front of you.

That Copenhagen lane does look nice, but as haitch pointed out, pedestrians do seem to mill into it fairly frequently. I'm not sure I really blame them, nobody's really switched on for it, which suggests slightly counterintuitive design.

coming from a city where the bike lane is a three foot wide strip running between parked cars and the street, demarcated by a sometimes barely visible pair of lines, that looks ideal. i can see how pedestrians would mill about but it looks to be so much more ideal and i think with a few tweaks in safety measures it would be perfect.

munich bike lanes are like that too. it works well, but i think the bike lanes and pedestrian lanes could afford to be a little bit more visually distinct, perhaps seperated by a low curb like in copenhagen.

what is the country that clearly and distinctly paints bike lanes red (i think?)

kudos

britain?

Portland paints em green I think? So does Chi in some areas

nyc green now

mix of green lanes and red lanes in glasgow

PDX has a few randomly interspersed green boxes, and their adjoining lanes are green, but that's it, they're mostly just standard-issue US bike lanes, just more of them.

Love seeing those euro lanes in part because they look like you'd feel fucking ridiculous pulling some urban-bike-warrior bullshit in them, whereas a lot of the lanes here feel like said bullshit is neccessary for survival.

also what is up with cars overtaking you just so that they can cut across you inside ten yards?

Yeah, this. Have clipped someone's bumper w my front tire before, can't believe I didn't eat it. Special place in hell for these people because it's so UNNECESSARY.