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[Mike K.]

Yeah, with 18 million people living on a land mass just a little bigger than Vancouver Island.

We’ve got to get our heads out of the clouds, to say it charitably.

[max.bravo]

The comic only goes so far.

Once you start living with the results of woke bike lane and transit planning, you realize cars and roads are the better option after all. You were just being a complainy grass-is-Greener whiner when you thought bike lanes were the thing.

Source: me; a former champion of bike lanes

[Mike K.]

Barely a soul in the bike lanes on a day like today, in November. Still 30,000 cars crossing the Johnson Street Bridge…

[lanforod]

30k cars over the bridge today? Wow. 

[dasmo]

Check out this bike graveyard in China! https://x.com/howthi...QrcObpkhVXe97Jg

[aastra]

The European example is the ideal example to follow, except for all that silly stuff about preserving and repurposing old buildings. Victorians are too cool for that.

[aastra]

 

Source: me; a former champion of bike lanes

 

You know, it's funny. I'm less negative about them now than I was before. I'm still not crazy about using them myself (if I happen to be biking somewhere, I tend to gravitate toward routes that will enable me to avoid them), but when I watch other people using them -- especially young people or young parents with children -- I gotta admit there's a decent chance that the generations who grow up with these bike lanes might end up regarding them differently than I do.

[dasmo]

Bike lanes made Rotterdam livable. It’s how we are doing them that is the problem.

Edited by dasmo, 21 November 2023 - 02:22 PM.

[Tony]

Considering the backlash to the limited one side of the street bike lanes vs bike lanes on both sides of a street in the Netherlands  that seems to provide more safety and better flow I do not think that any bicycle lanes would have ever got off the ground and have been built. Sometimes opposition complaints result in less than optimum results be they bicycle lanes or housing or .............

[Ismo07]

How’s downtown doing since the war on cars started several years ago?

Remember this? We’ve created a cycling utopia.

- https://www.timescol...dy-says-4606466

So why’s downtown in the worst shape it has ever been in, when we’ve done everything the experts wanted?

 

 

So weird, it was worse in 2020, 2021 and 2022...  Downtown has improved 3 years in a row...  Now if you go back further when we had bike lanes same thing was happening..  2015, 2016, 2017 and on development and improvement..  To blame bike lanes isn't accurate, I think something else happened that cause many issues.

[max.bravo]

You know, it's funny. I'm less negative about them now than I was before. I'm still not crazy about using them myself (if I happen to be biking somewhere, I tend to gravitate toward routes that will enable me to avoid them), but when I watch other people using them -- especially young people or young parents with children -- I gotta admit there's a decent chance that the generations who grow up with these bike lanes might end up regarding them differently than I do.

I commuted from the peninsula to downtown for several years by bike. I have to say, I think the devil is in the details. 

 

Dedicated bikeways like Lochside and the Goose are excellent. Protected bike lanes on main thoroughfares are excellent. 

 

But any 'traffic calming' mixed bicycle/car implementation is terrible. Like Richardson st. 

[Victoria Watcher]

Victoria bike-theft map shows most are stolen in residential neighbourhoods

 

While many people believe their bikes are safe in a locked condo bike room, that doesn’t seem to be the case

https://www.timescol...urhoods-7866563

 

When Jamie Wellbourn mapped the locations of self-reported bike thefts in Greater Victoria over nearly two months, he was surprised by the picture that emerged.

 

Wellbourn expected to see a cluster of thefts in downtown Victoria, but instead just three of the 35 thefts he mapped occurred downtown. The other 32 were scattered around mostly residential areas. Many were taken from condo bike rooms or backyards.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 November 2023 - 08:58 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I commuted from the peninsula to downtown for several years by bike. I have to say, I think the devil is in the details. 

 

Dedicated bikeways like Lochside and the Goose are excellent. Protected bike lanes on main thoroughfares are excellent. 

 

The Lochside Trail is the best for biking.  

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 22 November 2023 - 08:59 AM.

[LJ]

Now this is a bike lane...

 

 

 

[Victoria Watcher]

The British Columbia government has launched another study to decide how e-scooters fit into the provincial transportation network.

The four-year safety review will start next April and replaces an e-scooter pilot project that began in 2021, which saw the machines tested in 13 communities.

https://www.cheknews...system-1180069/


4 years eh?

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 02 December 2023 - 07:39 AM.

[max.bravo]

If they decide escooters are illegal after 4 more years, they should compensate the thousands of people who buy scooters during the ‘we don’t know if they’re legal’ time.

There should be something like a right to timely legislation. It took this government 10+ years to study and legalize Uber.

[Victoria Watcher]

What’s the difference between scooters or skateboards or rollerblades?

[max.bravo]

E scooters are motorized

[Victoria Watcher]

Does that make them more dangerous?

[max.bravo]

More dangerous? 🤷‍♂️ dunno.

It definitely makes them a different class of vehicle