Tasks / Bike Lane
Create a bike lane where one is needed.
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In the zone of: Humanitarian Crisis
Created by Kattapa
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On the other hand, perhaps this task plus your feelings just means that your completion will reflect a nonstandard perspective on locations where bike lanes are needed.
I might have to do a completion along those lines myself- once I stopped limiting myself to thinking about streets, I knew exactly where a bike lane's needed.
Maybe you should create a "destroy a bike lane task"
I added the task because of my experiences in Germany compared to the Netherlands.
In my few years in Germany, I've already had some near accidents: about half of them people ignoring me crossing an intersection, the other half people cutting me off when passing me on a straight road.
The Netherlands, on the other hand, is bicycle heaven. Of course the high level of respect for bicyclists in the Netherlands (, cars are a lower life form than bicycles there,) is mostly responsible for that, but the very many bike lanes probably also contribute to that respect.
In conclusion: maybe the task should be changed to something like: increase respect for / awareness of bicyclists. Possibly followed by some suggestions.
Move to Portland, We are the most bike friendly city in the US.
We have hard core bike laws and policies and Bikers are very active in everything. So much so that we get (lovingly?) mocked for it by the rest of the country
Except judges seemingly randomly decided that bike lanes don't continue into the intersections (while other lanes continue to do so) (which actually was a ruling, and caused some lady who was hit by a turning car not to get any of her high medical costs covered).
Portland may be the most bike friendly city in the US, but compared to Europe, a bike friendly city, it is not.
I oppose bike lanes.
I encourage merging traffic, sharing road space, and respect towards traffic of different speeds.
Separation creates intersections. You are 13 times more likely to have an accident on an intersection than on a straight piece of road.