cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30050658
“They are not safe. They are anything but for safety,” said a woman who added vehicles in the two-block section sometimes drive in the middle of Springbrook to avoid the bollards.
Oh, so drivers behind of the wheel of an automobile are the danger. Why remove the bike lanes rather than the car lanes?
I heard that Etobicoke’s NIMBYs are insane, but this is a new level of stupidity from Richmond Hill.
Protected by plastic bollards sounds like a false term/advertising. The folding plastic bollards wouldn’t even stop a wheelbarrow, let alone a car. The bollards are about as effective at protecting as paint is. These bollards do however make the lane more visible. A better term might be something like “a bike lane designated by plastic bollards.”
It’s only dangerous for the people on bikes because the people in cars drive like assholes, and of course those assholes don’t want to accidentally kill someone. It might damage their car.
Reading that the people were confused about bollards is astounding
Don’t run into or over them and you’re fine, if you feel you’re going too fast for how close you are to them, slow down.
It’s not rocket surgery
And that style of plastic “bollard” barely even counts as a bollard… You can drive right over them and they just break off/fall down.
We need to add coloring in between the lines to the driving test.
In NJ you are allowed to bump the curb when parallel parking but not allowed to go up on the curb. Getting bumped by a car hurts a lot.
vehicles in the two-block section sometimes drive in the middle of Springbrook to avoid the bollards.
How about you get rid of your giant fuckass titan-sized SUV for a more reasonable car, and then you won’t have to worry about being too fat-assed to fit?
Or slow down to drive closer to the bollards more safely. But to be honest, our wide lanes have corrupted drivers, many don’t feel comfortable or competent at all navigating their cars in tight spaces. I still know people who avoid revsering at all costs because they don’t really know how to. Some of the driving i see in tighter areas like parking lots makes me question how the hell the driver even got a lisence.
So people were speeding on these roads. Only 1% of drivers obeyed the speed limits according to residents. But change is weird, and especially change that reminds us that cars aren’t the only thing people use to get around the city, so let’s only talk about removing the calming features and get back to our dangerous driving again!
“bollards”
