• HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    It’s basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.

    Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!

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      1 year ago

      Painted bicycle gutters are car infrastructure. Bicycle infrastructure would be to remove a car lane and have a concrete barrier (or remove the road entirely)

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      1 year ago

      All around Vic, too. They generally don’t even put in a bike lane, just say “use the emergency lane”. Here’s a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

      Onramp with sign declaring bicycles permitted on this freeway

      Further along the onramp, sign saying to form 1 lane

      also on the onramp, yellow diamond sign with bicycle symbol

      sign beside the now-merging lane directing cyclists to ride on the shoulder

      sign at the end of the merge, 110 speed limit.

      This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

      The shoulder is the emergency lane. It’s where drivers pull over into if there’s an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

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        1 year ago

        There used to be a sign “helping” cyclists already on the freeway by telling them “cross here with care”:

        sign directing cyclists on the freeway to cross the merging lane at a slightly safer location

        But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

        same sign, obliterated by a vehicle

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    Yup. as a huge truck driver and also as a bicyclist, I’m always very aware of bike lanes, especially these mergey-switchy areas. I have been the bicyclist in this situation before and I have been hit by a car in even less-dangerous traffic patterns before. I’m very conscientious about bicyclists when I’m driving.