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Don't be so condescending.

Sharrows are worse than no bike lanes since they provide the illusion of safety while offering absolutely no protection.

It sounds like bollards are needed around the dedicated bike lanes to protect from cars driving on them.

Bicycling on a sidewalk and hoping the cops don't care is not a solution.

Yeah, you have to slow down, but that’s normal, the real problem isn’t the vehicle, it’s its speed and compared to the traffic around it.

Car speed is an issue. Kinetic energy increases with square of velocity, so when a car goes faster, its energy increases exponentially. This is why faster moving vehicles exponentially increase fatality rates when crashing into a person.

In roads, cars have to slow down because of bicycles, it makes sense that in pavements with no dedicated bicycle lanes you have to slow down to the speed of pedestrian traffic when present. The real answer is really dedicated bicycle paths.

Yes, the answer is dedicated bicycle infrastructure to separate bikes from vehicles. But the reason is safety. A car momentarily slowing down to pass a person on a bike on a road with poor bike infrastructure is a several second inconvenience which will be nullified by the next light they are stuck at for several minutes. What is much more important is that people die because of being hit by cars, which makes it unsafe for people to choose any form of transport other than cars.

Please discuss points that you disagree with, ask questions, and listen to others. Criticism and disagreement is healthy and welcome in this community but ad hominem attacks on people and petty name-calling are not. It was clear that you were arguing in bad faith. I prefer not to do this, but I decided to ban you for 1 week.

Please stop the inflammatory rhetoric and have a discussion in good faith.

We've induced a demand for cars by spending most of our transport budgets on widening highways and designing our cities for cars. As they say, build it and people will use it. Most people don't care how they get around as long as it's convenient and we've made the least efficient means of transporting people the default.

Almost everywhere, ebikes (pedal assist) have speed limiters. What are effectively mopeds are what people complain about. Imo the real issue is there is insufficient infrastructure for them to blend into car traffic safely. When there are 80km/h stroads with SUVs and pickup trucks, they feel unsafe and choose to ride on sidewalks and bike paths. Additionally, they're more noticeable when we're fighting for the scraps of narrow, unsafe bike infrastructure.

My general stance though is that if you get hit by one of those, it is incomparible to getting hit by even a small car going at a slow speed. So, there are bigger problems to solve and directing hate towards them would be better directed at fixing car-centric infrastructure. We don't need more pedestrians, people on bikes, and people on ebikes fighting. Let's fix the infrastructure first because they're another person who understands what needs to be improved.

Location so someone can cover it with another sticker? ;)

I wouldn't be so quick to write off Lemmy since it depends on what server you're on.

There are many servers, including the one this meme is on, that have plenty of progressive discussions without authoriative mods.

It uses electrolysis, so may as well cut out the middleman and just use electricity to power things without losing efficiency to convert it.