23 Replies to “Bicycle Lanes”

  1. WRONG! Jeremy. Bicycle Lanes make PERFECT sense. If … if … your ultimate goal is to ”get people OUT of their cars”. It’s perfectly logical to create massive traffic jams and make driving untenable … if … you HATE automobiles and want them eliminated.

    The sad part is that everyone knows THAT is the goal. Everyone. But just like white guilt has destroyed the fabric of Western society via unchecked immigration … we all have “personal motorcar guilt”. We all feel JUST guilty-enough for our super-comfy automobile rides … that we put up with this and don’t tell the politicians who impose this SHIT to go Fook themselves with a 10ft rusted steel pole.

    1. Ultimate goal is to make every north American city look like Saigon, only with highly inflammable e bikes instead of mopeds.

  3. As usual, Toronto with it’s Zero Vision leads the way in taking multilane feeder roads that cross the city, and turning them into 1 lane in each direction, with bike lanes and no parking…

    1. And the stupid bike lanes get snow cleared ahead of the regular lanes, even with no bike lane traffic! And the rent a bikes all over the city seldom leave their storage stands!

  4. There are still a few Brits with some common sense! Nigel Farage is one of them. I live in Toronto, but was born in England, and like
    to think I have some common sense. Western Leadership (and cabinets) are certifiable these days!

  5. In Canada, bicycle lanes only make sense in Victoria and Vancouver or perhaps Niagara Falls. Cities which have reasonably mild temperatures all year. They do NOT make sense anywhere on the Prairies, most of Ontario and Quebec and the Maritimes and Newfoundland/Labrador.
    This reminds me of another similar story which happened to me. My last years of work were for an organic farmer’s co-operative. I was the only Conservative. They were going to charge me for parking and everyone else would receive a parking pass. I chose to ride the bus and put up with the “less than special” people as it was cheaper. Then the offices were moved to north Broad Street, nearer to my home and I started to drive my car as there was an open parking lot. Now, the general manager (a born NDP supporter) would have to either ride the bus or ride a bicycle as he did not own a car. I suggested that he buy a helmet and ride a bicycle like his heroes – Jack Layton or David Suzuki. If looks could kill, I would be dead.

  6. “He’s saying what the vast majority of folk are thinking about the absolute clown world being created by our political leaders.”

    Yup. He’s right. Thinking about it, that’s it. Not saying anything about it; at least not to their politicians and press. And certainly not doing anything about it.

    1. Beat me to it.

      People like griping about progressives relentless winning more than they like winning themselves.

      It’s tiresome.

  7. Bike lanes should be based on demand and esthetics and traffic concerns.. Where I am you could fire a cannon down the sidewalks and never hit anybody and they got bike lanes.. For the sake of bike lanes..

    It would be cheaper and 1000X safer to turn sidewalks over to bikers and create new walking paths beside them.. But then you don’t get to screw over cars so that’s no fun.. Why cant we all just get along?.. A suburb solution..

    Downtown is a different story.. But what do I know..

  8. People know but they aren’t letting it BURN. That would require actually thinking about it.
    They are just going along for the ride, and seem content with it.
    So ……. the insanity will continue.

  9. Apparently, bike lanes are so great and necessary and the demand for them is sky high but I keep asking, “So where are all the f’n bicycles?”

  10. Those bicycle lanes are about Agenda 21. I am reading Rosa Koire (Behind the Green Mask). Very sinister.

  11. He’s quite correct, but missing the point. The point of bicycle lanes is to obstruct traffic flow.

  12. No coincidence politicians are trying to turn cities into replicas of 1960 Beijing.
    No cars.
    Just bikes.
    Maurice Strong and Mao smile, from below.

  13. I live on a busy 4 lane street. Last June 2022 the city started constructing a “protected” bike lane for a 2 km stretch. Construction was supposed to be finished by the fall. However, it wasn’t. They started working on it again this past June and they haven’t completed the work. Meanwhile, the road is down to 2 lanes and congestion is brutal. Businesses along the route have been suffering for 14+ months.
    Estimated cost $3.1M. I figure the final cost will be close to $5M. In the 8+ years I have lived here, I have seen less than a dozen cyclists a day on this street.
    Our tax dollars and city politicians hard at work.

  14. My neck of the woods is about 40° North latitude, so definitely 4-seasons and 3 of them aren’t particularly bicycle friendly.

    The local township pollies have all gone Agenda 21 bike-path crazy. Fortunately, our township is putting bike lanes beside the 2-lane roads that serve the area, and where traffic has grown to require some 4-lane roads, they still put the bike lanes on their own with a buffer of 10′ to 20′ between the path and the roadway.

    Fine and dandy, after reading the complaints here except… we’ve spent all that money for light usage during the one bike-friendly season and most of the use is by people walking for exercise, not biking. They are not used for errands to the store (What stores? You need a car to get there) or commuting to jobs (What jobs? Everyone commutes by car. No mass transport out here.)

    There are a few serious bicyclists in the area. They don’t use the bike paths. Seriously. They ride on the shoulder of the 2-lane, 55mph country roads we have. The pedestrians and kids on bikes on the bike paths slow them down.

    So, all those fancy bike paths are used for the evening constitutional and the few serious bicyclists take their lives by the handlebars and use that 10″ strip of asphalt next to the white shoulder-marking line.

    There are two or three bike/car accidents every year (spoiler alert: the bicyclists always lose) and we have had a couple of deaths over the 20+ years I have lived in the area.

    Fortunately for me, I’m not seeing the car-lane stealing aspects of bike lanes where I am. What I am seeing is an obvious set-up and prep for “No cars allowed” in the next few years.

    “You will own nothing, rent a a bicycle for transportation, and be happy… or else.”

    1. H.R. – we have some Asswhole here with nothing to do that puts up ‘White Bicycles’ along the road where some organ donor became an immediate donor. Supposed to remind people somehow of something.
      Those things just piss me off!
      There are more than enough distractions along the roads and with the bicycles, and the incompetent drivers, well…

      1. Other than maybe memorializing a bicyclist’s death (and setting up others for the same fate), I have no clue what those white bicycles are all about. Maybe a territory marker for a white supremacist vegan anti-fossil fuel econut enclave? I dunno.

        Dang! I forgot to mention the alcohol-impaired drivers on those 2-lane roads, CRB.

        There’s a State Park reservoir, campgrounds, marina, a few launch ramps, and pullouts for fishing access and hiking trails that’s plunked down and spills into about 3 townships, including my township.

        Alcohol is strictly prohibited on the State recreation property so naturally, of course! all the dumpsters and trash cans around the park are full of empty beer cans and pint liquor bottles.

        Then the bicyclists are contending not only with texting and talking drivers going 45-55 mph, but a bunch of drunk or near drunk drivers on those 2-lane roads.

        It’s a wonder only a couple of cyclists have been killed.

  15. As someone who often rides a bike to work (at one time commuted 50 km daily, year round for about 2 years), I concur with pretty much Jeremy said. I ride for the exercise since I get none at my desk job. Financially, there is little difference between riding or driving, because my food intake almost doubles doing 50km daily vs being in blob mode. Plus you are replacing tires, tubes, chains, cassettes, and chainrings frequently when riding through west coast rain day after day.
    I really don’t care for thes goofy bike lanes along busy streets. They tend to be death traps more than anything. What I much prefer to ride on are hard packed gravel trails/paths well away from busy streets to ride on

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