I see on your mastodon profile that you have a cargo bike. Those barriers must be double the fun with those. Are there any that you can’t even pass around you?
They are made to be hard to pass, so cyclists have to slow way down before riding onto the crossing street. They are not meant to keep cars out, maybe as an afterthought.
That’s very specifically the intent. The road looks to have blind corners to the cycle path. They want a cyclist ideally to dismount and look before proceeding.
These also make it more difficult for mopeds to enter the path.
@DarkThoughts@AchtungDrempels I suspect most planners don’t bike so they simply don’t understand the dynamics. They think they’ve done a good job making it “safe”
@AchtungDrempels Found it on Lemmy but intended to quote toot it here as e.g. @KristerIsaksson likes doom-gates ( :blobcat_winking:) … then I fumbled and accidentally replied to the lemmy post instead. 😅
I see on your mastodon profile that you have a cargo bike. Those barriers must be double the fun with those. Are there any that you can’t even pass around you?
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They are made to be hard to pass, so cyclists have to slow way down before riding onto the crossing street. They are not meant to keep cars out, maybe as an afterthought.
That’s very specifically the intent. The road looks to have blind corners to the cycle path. They want a cyclist ideally to dismount and look before proceeding.
These also make it more difficult for mopeds to enter the path.
So they can open them I guess for landscaping etc
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Sure, but those are pretty expensive I’d imagine
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A removable bollard is just a post in a hole
Not sure if the term landscaping covers plowing, but if there is snow in the winter it makes sense to open them to plow the area.
@DarkThoughts @AchtungDrempels I suspect most planners don’t bike so they simply don’t understand the dynamics. They think they’ve done a good job making it “safe”
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@DarkThoughts @AchtungDrempels @joakimfors Try to pass them on a MTB with a 800 mm wide handlebar. It’s basically suicide.
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@AchtungDrempels Yeah, there are some. At least around here the barriers are usually openable, still sucks though.
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Oh yeah now i saw. These pictures did not show up for me on lemmy, had to look at mastodon.
How did you even find this post on mastodon if i may ask?
@AchtungDrempels Found it on Lemmy but intended to quote toot it here as e.g. @KristerIsaksson likes doom-gates ( :blobcat_winking:) … then I fumbled and accidentally replied to the lemmy post instead. 😅
Ah ok. I thought it might have been to the new lemmy tagging feature, but i couldn’t see the tag.
Do you know if i would have been notified if you had just quote tooted it?