Ken McGrath

Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity The primacy given to the car has shaped our cities, the roads that serve them and our very thinking about the place of driving in our lives. And it’s a mindset that leaves cyclists highly vulnerable.

Indeed there are jerks on all sides. The idea of equal reciprocity however is a dangerous and fatal myth.

theconversation.com/cars-bicycle...

Didn't catch the "in front of moving cars" in your original post. You do have a point.

Scooters "blowing through" a stop sign are typically doing so at a lower speed (and mass) than the 70% of cars that roll through stop signs. The 1.3 million deaths per year caused by car drivers is oddly considered "normal" by drivers who'd rather complain about dangerous scooters/bikes/pedestrians

wow, you sure lost me on that one

The rest of America will disagree with that:

www.theatlantic.com/national/arc...

thanks for the reminder 🙂

Motor vehicle's A-pillar shrouds pedestrians crossing the street. Allowing this design in vehicles means no vehicle should be allowed to turn left while pedestrians are crossing

Head St allows vehicles to turn left while pedestrians are crossing. This, combined with horrendously thickening A-pillars is a recipe for disaster:

www.caranddriver.com/news/a652198...

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Virtually all parked cars on Station Ave are overflowing into the bike lane.

That section is so unusable, I wind up taking Station Ave... which itself is filled with street-parked cars overflowing into the bike lane.

The bike counts are growing significantly as the lanes are built. When blaming bike lanes for traffic... what alternative are you asking, you wish all these bicyclists use cars?

When more choices exist and people migrate to them, everybody benefits, particularly those who *need to drive.

Well no, I typically take transit. A single 3/4 full double-decker bus (with nobody standing) holds the equivalent passenger count of a 1.5km lane of cars

Not downtown: Just yesterday there were 3226 bike trips at Gorge Rd and the Galloping Goose. That's equivalent to a 32km lane of cars

The age-old car-brained argument that "bike lanes cause traffic" and not cars.

Assuming you'd be blocked, I took the liberty of responding and capturing:

I suspect you're trying to drive a car, a bloated mode of transport that hogs the space of 15-30 people, inherently designed so they can't get past each other unless another living-room-width lane is built for them.

The only thing that causes traffic is cars. Council knows your math is faulty.

Likely due to the F1 Canadian Grand Prix weekend. Many international visitors (particularly from Europe) are visiting Montreal Friday thru Sunday.

Whenever you say that, I start watching. You know, it's like a train wreck, you can't help but look...

- oh, it's tied. 😅

That we are all subsidizing car use, while motorists aren't paying their fair share for road maintenance, construction, and (ugh) road expansion.

#CarBloat has only made it worse.

There's a public misconception that (for example) cyclists aren't paying, when it's actually the other way around.

Please report it via the "see a mistake/typo?" link at the bottom. I just did.

Speed Limits do not apply to bicycles in Ontario, according to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation

Bicycles aren't required by law to be equipped with speedometers.

You're mis-reading the sign. It states the *E-Bike motor* is not allowed to propel you greater than 32km/h. At 32 km/h the motor must cut out, beyond that you must pedal or be descending without power to go faster.

32km/h is not a "speed limit" as you're depicting in your post.

Thank you, these are exactly the examples I was looking for. Visualization of specific results like this, i.e. specific examples of success where the data is being put to use.
Cheers, and thank you.

Indeed, however that merely comes across as a mission statement. I'm really looking forward to seeing examples of the above taking place based on your data, not just number-of-reports-received.

I'm more interested in:
- How many of these obstructions were reported to authorities
- and of these, how many were ticketed as a result

The "number of obstructions reported" is not helpful without seeing a direct benefit, and resulting reduction in said obstructions.

Northbound 9055 Lochside Dr, North Saanich, BC, Canada.

Northbound 9055 Lochside Dr, North Saanich, BC, Canada.

You can't really, it's genetic. Identical twins brough up in separate families had the same eating problems (i.e. there's nothing "picky" about it). Studies in the late 90's and again in 2024 have confirmed this.

Screengrab from a bike camera, showing the perspective of a cyclist or pedestrian waiting for a walk signal at a wildly oversized intersection. Despite all traffic signals being red at this instant, this is the scene: Working from left to right, a black minivan is waiting to turn left from a 4-lane side street onto a 7-lane urban stroad, but is pulled all the way into the crosswalk over the side street. A white SUV is making an illegal right on red from the stroad into the side street. In the middle of the shot, just in front of the camera, a black SUV is creeping through an illegal right on red from the side street onto the stroad, blocking both crosswalks and the ADA ramp. On the right, a black minivan waiting in the stroad's crosswalk for a permissive yellow arrow to turn left from the stroad onto the side street, blocking the crosswalk which currently has a walk sign. Disappearing off the right edge of the picture is a red SUV, having just run the red light on the stroad.

Motorists are not capable of self-governance.

#VisionMillion

I believe this is the proper link:

nucksmisconduct.ca/game-recap-4...

100% of road maintenance covered by GVW-based registration fees

#CarBloat

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars Dangerous, polluting SUVs and pickup trucks took over America. Lawmakers are partly to blame.

“For half a century, a litany of federal policies has favored large SUVs & trucks, pushing automakers & buyers toward larger models. Instead of counteracting #CarBloat thru regulation, policymakers have subtly encouraged it. That has been a boon for car companies but a disaster for everyone else.”

5) Eliminate RTOR at this (and preferably all) intersections.

Rats. I was just able to get registered and logged into the app. I'll let you know as I progress.