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Behold my favorite #traffic calming device.

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@davidho Looks more like another way to damage another persons property. Street lanes must be so many feet wide, this doesn't cut it!

@mcidave1965 @davidho Ah, so you're the type of person who puts their foot on the gas pedal, accelerates into something (or someone) and then says "hey it damaged my car!"

@Andres4NY @davidho Sorry to disappoint you that actually I am not one of those drivers that people just like you always stereotype. Do yourself a favor and stop assuming everyone is an idiot driver like you are at bluntly judging people

@mcidave1965 @davidho It's actually normal lane width, it just turns out that if you make the boundaries of the lane a meter tall people get scared, kind of a confession that they normally drive too fast

@mcidave1965 @davidho In the UK, they tend to be deployed when there are further reasons along the route that will also be very narrow (such as historical narrow streets). Street lanes don't need to be any feet wide, but if they are marked appropriately and you're nervous using them, you should pick a route you're comfier with.

@hatter @mcidave1965 @davidho There is indeed no minimum width for a street in the UK, and there are definitely roads narrower than that. In the West Country you'll find main roads that are one vehicle wide (barely 2.5 metres) with high stone walls on each side. What the video shows is that many people are lacking in the spatial awareness necessary to drive a larger vehicle around narrow city roads, and yet they choose to drive such vehicles anyway.