“Note even utility boxes and machinery get yellow steel poles for protection. Cyclists get plastic”
@burritojustice but then again, it's all about who bears the cost of the damage...
Sending in an application to my city's utility department to have cyclists declared to be critical infrastructure.
@burritojustice The pessimist in me says, “Yeah of course, gotta protect businesses. You're just a person.”
@burritojustice Just saw a remarkable demonstration of this the other day along Evans. Metal bollards protect the building. Plastic straws protect the squishy humans riding bikes
@scott @burritojustice look I get where you’re coming from, but isn’t this to protect pedestrians?…
@zkat @scott @burritojustice It's to protect the police station
@scott @burritojustice I used to call these the Timothy McVey Memorial Flower Garden back when they were all concrete flower planters
@burritojustice Possibly more risk to the cyclist if you had steel posts right next to them!
@mattsqu @burritojustice why? How is a steel pole more dangerous than a car? With a bike you have roughly the same danger-implications from falling over due to pavement as you do with a steel pole, but with a steel pole you definitely ain’t getting hit by a car at that position
@mikkelens @burritojustice I'm not sure I understand. As a cyclist I wouldn't want to hit a steel pole. It probably is more dangerous than a car, especially if the car is moving in roughly the same direction as the cyclist. The real answer is that cycle lanes shouldn't be right next to fast moving cars at all, in an ideal world.
@burritojustice in Germany cyclists get marks on the street which cars aren't supposed to cross.