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[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 months ago (6 children)

A bike lane on a highway seems like a terrible idea.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 58 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Denmark checking in. A lot of our highways have separate parallel bicycle highways. It's really great! They have exits in the same spots as cars do and have big sound barriers.x

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 9 points 8 months ago

Separate makes sense

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

anywhere that you might say "we shouldn't have a bike lane here, it's too dangerous for cyclists" is a place where there should be a bike lane.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

And this is why the Marianas Trench needs a bike lane.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago

Inside rail racks? That is such a dumb decision making process.

[–] RockBottom@feddit.org 7 points 8 months ago

If you only have a hammer ...

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Well it’s a good thing no one is proposing that! Seriously, where do you people come from?

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're looking at what is obviously a conceptual diagram and acting as if it's some kind of literal blueprint. IMO it's something closer to a Sankey diagram showing the overall flow and moda share of traffic into the city than a plan sketch of an individual road. I don't think it's even reasonable to conclude that it's actually suggesting using the same alignment for cars, bikes, and pedestrians at all, let alone strawmanning it as "a bike lane on a highway."

Frankly, I'm found it to be a tough call deciding whether you genuinely didn't understand that or if you were commenting in bad faith (which violates rule 1), and the only thing that made me give you the benefit of the doubt was your later comment talking about the cement barrier (i.e. a somewhat constructive comment about how to make it better) instead of continuing to flatly reject it.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you had looked at my replies to other people who replied to me, you would see I wasn't antibike lanes in general. The diagram looks far closer to a city street than a highway.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you had looked at my replies to other people who replied to me, you would see I wasn't antibike lanes in general.

I did, hence my reference to "your later comment talking about the cement barrier."

The diagram looks far closer to a city street than a highway.

The right side of it does, sure, because that's what it's depicting the highway transitioning to.

[–] Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I was referring to other comments. Ones the people I blocked could have checked before attacking me.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Nobody "attacked" you until you attacked them first. That's why your comments were removed for being uncivil and theirs weren't.