• @[email protected]OPEnglish
    35•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!

    • @SpaceNoodle
      28•1 year ago

      It resembles Steven’s Creek by I-480(?), lemme try to enhance that sign

      Edit: oh man this image is compressed all to hell. There’s a very similar death trap at Steven’s Creek Blvd. and I-280 in Cupertino, but this ain’t it.

      • @STUPIDVIPGUYEnglish
        16•1 year ago

        The sign might say “Tampa”, but that’s based off of like 18 pixels

        Plus the road design and landscape looks pretty floridian.

        • @[email protected]
          5•1 year ago

          I’m like 95% sure I’ve seen that somewhere around Orlando, and the sign looks like a Turnpike sign, but the turnpike doesn’t go to Tampa unless you go turnpike to I-4…

          EDIT: there’s a less crunchy image on Reddit, apparently FDOT posted it to Twitter. That is definitely a Florida Turnpike sign (sorry for linking to Reddit)

          EDIT 2: Found the original tweet via wayback machine, which was deleted by FDOT (gee, I wonder why?) and it’s somewhere in Palm Beach County (Lyons Road to the Turnpike), not Orlando.

    • @[email protected]
      8•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.

      • @[email protected]
        13•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

        • @[email protected]
          2•1 year ago

          I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.

    • randomivysaurEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      4PWQ2WR3+MQ here’s a plus code for ye (apparently Google’s open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)

  • teft
    30•1 year ago

    I wouldn’t mind too much. Just gonna take me a few minutes to get up to merging speed.

    • @SkyezOpen
      28•1 year ago

      If you don’t have solid rocket boosters on your bike for highway travel, what are you doing with your life?

  • @makyoEnglish
    27•1 year ago

    I love how the made sure to get a helmet painted on that cyclist icon

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      23•1 year ago

      “Hey, you’ll still die, but at least we’ll be able to identity your mangled corpse for your family!”

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          “The helmet held off the drunk redneck in the luxury truck just long enough for us to acquire a tissue sample from which the DNA was sequenced. We were able to positively identify the remains of your child. I’m sorry.”

    • @[email protected]
      12•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)

    • @Paddzr
      6•1 year ago

      Either way, i hope no one is foolish enough to cycle on a 4 way motorway…

      • kase
        4•1 year ago

        Takes me back to the time I was a kid and got lost riding my bike in my suburb. I ended up on the other side of the town, and to get home my stupid ass rode on the shoulder of the major highway, no helmet, going the wrong direction.

        Made it home unharmed by sheer luck lmao.

  • andrew_bidlaw
    10•1 year ago

    There’re thousands of less painful ways to quit. It’s for people who are both suicidal and adventurous lol.

  • @LemmyKnowsBest
    9•1 year ago

    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.

    • @daFRAKKINpope
      3•1 year ago

      Feels good to know I’m not the only big rig/bicyclist in the world.

  • xiao
    6•1 year ago

    When bike lanes are made (designed) by those who never use them…

  • @njordomir
    6•1 year ago

    It looks like the bike lane ends where the engineer started WTFing and starts up again after the confusing spot. It’s above his paygrade to figure out how to move the bikes safely from the left of the merging lane to the right of it, I guess.