I was cleaning out some old video files and I came across this gem from Associate Professor Brian Doucet at the UofW School of Planning (bmdoucet on the bad site).
This was taken in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada the city where I went to University.
It boggles my mind that Canadian traffic engineering can be so broken that something like this gets built.
How did nobody along the path to getting this created say, "why are we building it like this when you'd have to be fucking insane to cycle here?"
@notjustbikes tbh, I suspect that this is not an accident or stupidity. It is precisely because you would have to be insane to cycle here. So they achieve their stated goal of including a cycle lane, while making sure it doesn't achieve the underlying intended goal of stimulating cycling. Win-win.
The politicians should have been more precise in stating their requirements.
@martin_ueding This is bad, but it is nowhere near as dangerous as the Canadian example.
This is not a highway entrance it's an urban area. The speed limit is lower, the lane on the right is primarily for buses, there will be much fewer heavy trucks, and the speed differential between cyclists and drivers is more comparable.
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