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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It’s weird how when the Department of Transportation is using the bike lane, they give themselves an entire car lane for protection.

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[-] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago

Look at the picture you shared. They are using the bike lane. They are also using the car lane. Obviously they need to block both or they would be idiots looking to get run over.

[-] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago

This about the dumbest post I've seen today. How dare these people exercise safety so that they can install the fucking safety barriers that you want for the bike lanes. Holy shit, take a step back and get a sense of reality.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

The point is that the teeny little barriers they're installing which are supposedly adequate for cyclists' safety are far less protection than the massive buffer they have as protection while installing them.

It's not about blaming the people doing the installation, it's about highlighting the government's hypocrisy when it comes to cyclist safety.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I get the point. It's just a shitty point. We can agree that the bike lane is not sufficiently safe, and you claim that those barriers are inadequate, but comparing the safety of bikers in the bike lane vs workers literally working in the car lane, and somehow correlating them shutting down that lane as hypocrisy is a shit argument. Apples and oranges.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Are you suggesting they pylon off half a lane?

What's this subs rule on using the R word?

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I don't think people around here do like roads very much

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Actually, they should: they should move the bike lane over during construction instead of closing it entirely.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Republican?

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

I'm assuming these people aren't official DoT workers, but a collective of citizens clandestinely installing cycling safety infrastructure. Could be wrong, just my immediate assumption.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the Crocs really seal the deal.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Omg I missed that. Nice spot

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

yeah I can't imagine someone who does this for a job would carry a claw hammer. or that it would take so many people to bolt down each pylon. like I dunno maybe one or 2 to drill the holes, one to install and bond the studs, one to bolt the pylons down, and a traffic guy in each direction.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The concrete anchors are often ones you tap in first with the hammer to first set them into place. Then, you crank the bolt down, which drives out the anchor into the surrounding material. The hammer is just to get it started and fully down the bore hole.

You might also use it to align the pylon. It's easier to tap the base gently to move it a few cm into place over the holes than to pick the whole pylon up and down while aligning it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

oh I've never seen that kind before

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

How many people do you need to install the poles?

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

They seem to have four people working on poles, two more prepping/measuring, one person providing assistance between groups and one other person providing traffic safety and moving the generator.

Certainly on person could install these poles but it wouldn't be as safe and not nearly as quick.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Oh my god, a voice of reason. This is the fuck cars subreddit, why are people recommending solo unauthorised work on a public road. Traffic control and enough people to be noticed is essential for road work. Or do it at 3am.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Three fewer than if you were installing Austrians.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This feels like a reference I'm not German enough to understand.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

That many people would sure help if you have two miles off poles to install.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Those people are clearly in the car lane. This is some 1984 level shit right here "just ignore the picture and repeat the narrative."

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

So uh, is that traffic light in the middle of the cycling lane?

this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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