If you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don't
I was trying to find my favourite example of car and bike lane bullshit on street view but it turns out I don’t actually know where it is and google might be giving me a different route from my old work commute. Maybe it’s been overhauled but thats probably wishful thinking
It was a stone wall just tall enough that you could jump off of it onto a semi trailer, maybe 900m or so long and it was separated from the road by a bike lane and a shoulder almost wide enough to be another lane, then the noisy grooved pavemment next to the paint line. There’s a ditch on the other side based on before and after the wall, but I’ve never looked at what is behind the wall. For some god awful reason the concrete separator blocks only go up to just before the wall and the bike lane is fully exposed from the wall to the next real intersection where the bike lane ends. Many of those blocks are pushed as far as half way into the bike line. The road is straight for a long stretch before and after. Yet for some reason the wall has traded paint with so many cars that its really colourful. I swear people have an instinctive need to crash their cars and I would be surprised if none of the ones that left paint there blame cyclists somehow.
Roads should just be entirely separated from pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure and no amount of design fuckery will stop drivers from finding a way to crash.
I was trying to find my favourite example of car and bike lane bullshit on street view but it turns out I don’t actually know where it is and google might be giving me a different route from my old work commute. Maybe it’s been overhauled but thats probably wishful thinking
It was a stone wall just tall enough that you could jump off of it onto a semi trailer, maybe 900m or so long and it was separated from the road by a bike lane and a shoulder almost wide enough to be another lane, then the noisy grooved pavemment next to the paint line. There’s a ditch on the other side based on before and after the wall, but I’ve never looked at what is behind the wall. For some god awful reason the concrete separator blocks only go up to just before the wall and the bike lane is fully exposed from the wall to the next real intersection where the bike lane ends. Many of those blocks are pushed as far as half way into the bike line. The road is straight for a long stretch before and after. Yet for some reason the wall has traded paint with so many cars that its really colourful. I swear people have an instinctive need to crash their cars and I would be surprised if none of the ones that left paint there blame cyclists somehow.
Roads should just be entirely separated from pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure and no amount of design fuckery will stop drivers from finding a way to crash.