The jig is up my covers blown! Requesting extraction!!

I myself drive by feel, turning once I hit something or someone. /s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16k-yhcRNk8

Nuts, also why do people feel to need to park their cars front ends overhanging the sideway like that!

And then winter starts and we reset and forget, rinse and repeat.

Hahaha yup, at least the microplastics will preserve us and help us live longer lives like Ken and Barbie. Though I guess the forever chemicals act as a reverse uno card.

Add in lead exposure to that list as well

Relevant video on the effects of lead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm_1XLKtGpI

I think the question has become, are bikes cars?

From the definition of a vehicle it’s something that is used to transport people or goods, and a vehicle can be “self power” or “human powered”.

By definition rollerblades are vehicles.

Now I think the question becomes (for people that see bikes as cars)

Are people on bikes allowed to use the full lane of a roadway, just as any vehicle that is classified as a car would?

What about a person on rollerblades?

By definition they are a vehicle, but are they a car?

I suppose most of us seem to agree on the following:

Bikes are vehicles, and Cars are vehicles.

But we seem to be divided on, are bikes cars.

Looks like they are expanding what looks like a “decently designed” road into a full scale hwy?

Seems a little hasty and not understood tbh as roads should ideally not exceed 3 lanes. Road should also serve as a “connection”, where hwys empty out onto roads, and then roads empty out into streets.

Seems with this redesign you might get a full scale hwy emptying out onto a street which then will probably get redesigned into a “strode”.

Roads are throughways, streets are destinations.

What a road looks like:

What a street looks like:

Or my favorite, pedestrian only streets with tram lines.

Why do we assume that all people immigrating are criminals?

Also it’s asylum seekers, which are people that are being prosecuted or even escaping their home country for fear of death. These are people that more then likely left their country with only the clothes on their back in a time of hardship or even war.

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Can’t let those poor cars loose a lane of traffic or even one parking spot.

Meanwhile, when the roadway is shut down and turned in a pedestrian only street the business along the street are definitely making a huge killing in sales from the influx of pedestrian traffic.

Parking in a designated bike lane should be treated like the equivalent of mounting the curb and parking on a sidewalk.

All ages of people use bike-lanes just like all ages of people use sidewalks.

Forcing people onto a full lane of potential deadly traffic should not be taken so lightly.

I would argue a stop sign is car infrastructure.

Did we have stop signs before cars started to fill up our city streets?

I would agree any item that is used to transport goods or people in any way is considered a vehicle, but i would add the term “vehicle” is somewhat loose in meaning or interpretation.

There are two distinct classes of vehicles though. Self-powered and Human-powered.

Self-powered vehicles. Example, an aircraft, car, tank, truck, motorcycle, scooter.

Human-powered vehicles. Example, a bicycle, unicycle, balance bicycles, scooter, dandy horse, handcar, draisine, shoping cart, and maybe even shoes?

Now the reason I believe classifying cyclists as pedestrians, is because it would require a “shift” in how infrastructure is designed within our towns and cities.

The city “strode” is a unsafe place for a pedestrian or people in general to be (as it’s currently designed). Classifying a cyclist as a pedestrian would highlight the need that the equivalent of “sidewalk infrastructure” is required for the well-being of people on a bicycle.

Now imagine yourself walking (in your shoes) on a city “strode” in the middle of a lane, it feels “wrong”. So why do we force all ages of people on a bicycle to do this?

Imagine being ticketed for walking the wrong way down a sidewalk or crossing the street. At intersections pedestrians generally have the right of way unless it’s signalized (or a car is already inside the intersection).

Cyclist are pedestrians.

These kind of stories almost read as “car is king” and all other modes of travel (walking, running, cycling) are required to conform around the car. Next thing you know grandma will get a ticket for riding her mobility scooter the wrong way down a sidewalk.

The main issue is improper Infrastructure. Streets are destinations and Roads are throughways. Street are multi-use and should be designed as such.

This is a street. It’s a destination where local pedestrians have the right of way.

This is a “strode” its a neither a street or a road. Car rule and use these as throughways.

This is a road. It’s a proper throughway with no street parking or driveways. Reduced conflict zones such as no intersections or left turn.

Also obligatory:

Emotos, ie. “Self powered” high speed electric motorcycles should be treated similar to regular motorcycles or cars.

Ebikes ie. “Pedal assist” or “human-powered” bicycles are low speed and similar in nature to regular bicycles or in some cases “mobility devices” like grandmas mobility scooter.

Toronto checking in, we have these at almost every “major” street intersection.

Our drivers like to speed through the red lights, to get to the next red as soon as possible.

We also have a “Vision Zero” goal in the city (which is to get to zero deaths on city roadways), but since the initative was announced not much has been done to limit car travel or access across the city.

This is why we need proper infrastructure design, together with dedicated cycling corridors.

Cars should not be allowed anywhere near pedestrian or cycling routes. Especially at any speed high enough to seriously ingure or kill. City streets should be for the people that live in the area and not through traffic.

Also I like to cycle, but my cycling style is like “taking a relaxing walk”, I like to look around at my surrounding and enjoy the area I am in. I can’t do that and feel safe on a two or more lane city street packed with cars racing to the next red.