Posted on 01/14/2020 12:51:13 PM PST by RecallMoran
Three months after a portion of Seminary Road was re-paved and re-striped to reduce it from two vehicular lanes in each direction to one lane, a turn lane and bike lanes, the 51 Comments over the “road diet” still rages on.
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Probably took out all the streetlights so there wouldn’t be any lampposts.
The concept of public servant has been flipped on its head to where the government no longer serves the public. The public now serves the government.
Bump for later.
They did the exact same thing in my small town in north AL. It made a bad traffic situation much worse.
The money should have been spent four-laning a by-pass around town that was built over 30 years ago. The first question out of my mouth driving on that by-pass was, “What idiot made made this a two-lane highway?” I will take ten times as much to make it a four-lane now.
All the foresight of a lobster. . . .
[un]Civil serpents.
We have this same nonsense here. To make our roads more “bike friendly,” they are taking lanes out and turning them into protected bike lanes. The resulting congestion is a monstrosity, and these lanes are only used by a handful of bicyclists, many of whom are also our “homeless” populations (who in addition to bikes wheel their shopping carts down the bike lanes).
I get impacted by two of these going to and from work every day. I know exactly how much this affects me, despite various traffic studies by the city claiming there will be no adverse effects. My car keeps track of my miles per gallon. Before the bike lanes my mileage was consistently 28.6 mpg. Now it’s down to 24.4 mpg. That’s an almost 15% loss of efficiency and increased gasoline consumption for ONE car. Now multiply that by thousands of cars that are similarly affected and the fumes they belch as they crawl along, and you will quickly see that this supposed improvement to our environment by putting in bike lanes is totally bogus.
Add on to this a huge increase in road rage and unsafe driving as cars try to maneuver in clogged, too-narrow lanes. It’s actually scary a bunch of the time. Recently we were caught in a clog, and a car behind us frustrated by this decided to pull out and go the wrong way down the other side of the street and then pull a left turn across the red light to another street. It managed to sideswipe us in the process and we had to then get our car repaired at the cost of couple thousand dollars of body work.
In my area this is one of my top pet peeves. The stupid drivers are not rising in rage against the politicians but they are mad just the same. Complain to each other and then vote over 80% Dem each time here.
Apologist in local newspaper said:”Yes the roads are near gridlock for 2 to 2.5 hours each rush hour direction twice a day. But instead of blaming the traffic blame yourself. Think “I am to blame for sitting in a car instead of taking a bike or the bus. It’s my own fault.”——What a barf fest.
Although I have anger issues and I am a misanthrope for just such reasons, I love my wife, President Trump and his supporters including on Free Republic. My lifeline to this cruel world’s people.
As the bestselling weird New Age writer Esther Hicks said: People are against you for having anger because it is inconvenient and uncomfortable for their selfish purposes. So true.
In my town it got so bad, that they wanted to actually make a road that was one lane at a point.
Not one lane in either direction, but actually only one lane where traffic driving in either direction would be expected to move out of each other’s way when they approached each other, so they could fit in bike lanes on either side of the street.
https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2015/05/2_travel_lanes_for_bikes_1_for.html
“. . .instead of taking a bike or the bus.”
This is a good example of the bogus nature of this. On one of the streets that they shrunk for bike lanes, we had previously had to go through a couple of years of construction while they built a semi-dedicated bus lane. Although it was a pain to go through (each one of the bus stops had to be hardened with a concrete pad), afterwards it was great. The buses had their own lane and cars had two lanes (one for through traffic and the other one that could be used by left-hand turners). And the bus traffic efficiently got to work as well as the vehicles (average trip time for us about 30 minutes). Now with shrinking the lanes for bike lanes there are only two lanes for vehicular traffic, one with the risk of left-turners and the others that have to be shared by cars and buses. The result, in addition to drivers constantly trying to weave back and forth between the two lanes, is that the buses are caught in the same traffic jam as everyone else. And that 30 minute trip is now turned into 45 minutes for both cars and buses.
So glad to be out of Northern Virginia traffic. Hope you all enjoy what is coming your way with the new Virginia Assembly.
Shudder. In a few years we can get out, that is if we’re allowed to by that time.
same in areas I drive in. two lane(each way) congested streets HAD to add bike lane so it’s now one lane each way and they added huge isands in centers with lots of plants needing water and upkeep. waste of money, to make the change and forplant up keep and snarels traffic even the more. progess & tax payer $ at work.
“these lanes are only used by a handful of bicyclists, many of whom are also our “homeless” populations (who in addition to bikes wheel their shopping carts down the bike lanes)”
Those people are “pioneers” of the brave, new lifestyle that progressives have planned for you and I. Welcome back to the dark ages, except you won’t have draft animals to pull your cart so you better get used to pulling it yourself.
Bike lanes are BS wherever they appear. Want to see a clear pathway look for a bike lane. Rarely used and always noxious.
Wambulances can take stroke victims to the hospital via the bike lane.
Then send a wambulance back for the bikers that didn’t obey the lights and siren.
The citizens should rethink the city council. As in recall.
Hey, it’s never THEIR money they’re wasting.
“Then send a wambulance back for the bikers that didn’t obey the lights and siren.”
Those will be the struck victims.
Hmmm, we’ve had similar things going on here in So Cal. They take out a lane to make it ‘friendlier,’ add a bike lane and/ or make the sidewalk stick out into the second lane and plant a tree there.
I am sure there is money for it to the communities. I thot it was just the Commies here in California, but maybe others are copying our illustrious leaders.
it is of course infuriating! They want to get rid of cars. And they want everybody living close in in cities. I am going to Four Corners asap.
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