Definitely has his grip on reality, this one

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          Just one more lane bro. I promise bro just one more lane and it’ll fix everything bro. Bro, just one more lane. Please just one more, one more lane and we can fix this whole problem bro, bro c’mon just give me one more lane i promise bro, bro bro please! Just need one more lane

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        In the end the city will have to bulldoze the houses and offices that make up to the city to make room for more roads and cars, increasing costs and destroying their own tax revenue in the process, or realize less cars are the answer.

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          In addition to all the parking lots that the increased car traffic would require

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        Man, I’m flashing back to my visit to Detroit and the massive ‘boulevard’ that cuts the city in two. The car I was riding in had to get on to what was basically a highway, change lanes a half dozen times, and exit via ramp in order to get from one neighborhood to another. (In the span of a quarter mile).

        It was eerie, but doable, because there weren’t many other cars on the road. I can only imagine how difficult it would have been when there was actually traffic.

        Roads can be walls as well as nooses.

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          When you have enough tarmac, you don’t even need lanes or lights, there’ll be space for everyone.

          Lanes are a commie plot to steal freedom anyway.

          It’s obvious from the picture that it is the buildings in the city that cause the congestion. get rid of em.

          I once got stuck behind someones house once, I politely honked three times and flashed my headlights , but it wouldn’t budge, so in the end i had no choice but to ram right through it. Fucking cities stealing all our open roads.

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        Long story: short the city will eventually have to decide whether to put one last parking space or one last lane.

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        It probably just attempts to indicate it’s the same 3 cars again, likely pointing out the fact that there are legitimate reasons to drive, those people are just fucked by everyone else and brain-dead traffic planning.

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        It looks like the green cars have passengers, while the red cars have single occupants.

        Nevermind, some of the red cars have passengers, too. I guess the green cars survive to the final graphic… why that’s relevant, I don’t really understand.

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        I think it’s more for design language, you’re subconsciously drawn to the green vehicles because they’re different, and subconsciously when you’re looking at the traffic, you’re reminded what it’s like being in the traffic yourself.

        So you imagine yourself as the green car.

        1st scenario: traffic is really bad. 2nd scenario: they’ve added more lanes, but you, the green car, are still stuck. 3rd scenario: public transportation has alleviated the traffic and it’s better for all.

        Notice in the 3rd scenario, all the transportation is green. I think it’s to make you think, “I can ride my bike to work” or “I can take the bus” or “I can still drive my car if where I live requires me to” depending on your own situation. It’s to show all options can be viable, if you support public transportation.

        That’s how I see it at least.

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        I assumed that Green = Moving. The pedestrians in the city are green, as are the busses and bikes in the bottom diagram. The greens in the top two are there to show just how few vehicles can actually move at any given time.

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          I think red is just to show the effective capacity advantage of the bus lane once it appears in the final diagram.

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        You’re looking at what is obviously a conceptual diagram and acting as if it’s some kind of literal blueprint. IMO it’s something closer to a Sankey diagram showing the overall flow and moda share of traffic into the city than a plan sketch of an individual road. I don’t think it’s even reasonable to conclude that it’s actually suggesting using the same alignment for cars, bikes, and pedestrians at all, let alone strawmanning it as “a bike lane on a highway.”

        Frankly, I’m found it to be a tough call deciding whether you genuinely didn’t understand that or if you were commenting in bad faith (which violates rule 1), and the only thing that made me give you the benefit of the doubt was your later comment talking about the cement barrier (i.e. a somewhat constructive comment about how to make it better) instead of continuing to flatly reject it.

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          If you had looked at my replies to other people who replied to me, you would see I wasn’t antibike lanes in general. The diagram looks far closer to a city street than a highway.

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            If you had looked at my replies to other people who replied to me, you would see I wasn’t antibike lanes in general.

            I did, hence my reference to “your later comment talking about the cement barrier.”

            The diagram looks far closer to a city street than a highway.

            The right side of it does, sure, because that’s what it’s depicting the highway transitioning to.

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              I was referring to other comments. Ones the people I blocked could have checked before attacking me.

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                Nobody “attacked” you until you attacked them first. That’s why your comments were removed for being uncivil and theirs weren’t.

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        Denmark checking in. A lot of our highways have separate parallel bicycle highways. It’s really great! They have exits in the same spots as cars do and have big sound barriers.x

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        anywhere that you might say “we shouldn’t have a bike lane here, it’s too dangerous for cyclists” is a place where there should be a bike lane.

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        Spending billions of dollars connecting two cities and not spending a couple percent more for parallel active transportation infrastructure also seems like a terrible idea.

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                Nobody cares if you block them. We object to the things you say. You don’t just block people and get on with your life, you attempt to weaponize blocking people. For your own petty needs.

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                  Ah so it is considered petty to tell someone why you are blocking. We? You are plural?

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        Well it’s a good thing no one is proposing that! Seriously, where do you people come from?

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              When cars are going 70+ mph 6 feet of fucking grass is not enough there needs to be a cement barrier.

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                There’s a bus lane before getting to the cars, and there’s a stoplight and a tighter lane which indicates that that’s no longer a fucking 70+mph zone lol.

                Look, it’s ok to not be that smart but being such a massive prick about it is a bad look, broski.

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                Definitely put cameras in the bus lane and fine all the cars who are driving in it then.

                There are solid black lines in the bottom diagram instead of dashed in the top two, this suggests something more than a lane line, it might be representing a kerb or could easily be a more physical barrier. but as far as a simplified diagram goes that looks pretty clearly separated as can be depicted in plan view.

                I assume this is not the detailed plans. If it is those buildings are way too small for all of these people to fit inside.