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I was cleaning out some old video files and I came across this gem from Associate Professor Brian Doucet at the UofW School of Planning (bmdoucet on the bad site).
This was taken in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada the city where I went to University.
It boggles my mind that Canadian traffic engineering can be so broken that something like this gets built.
How did nobody along the path to getting this created say, "why are we building it like this when you'd have to be fucking insane to cycle here?"
These sorts of bike lanes that have car lanes on both sides are tragically common in Ontario. Especially near intersections. If the intersection has a dedicated right turn lane, the lane will often split off around the bike gutter. This means cars who are just planning on turning right often change lanes and cut off the bike lane without even looking back (because let’s be real, who does a full visual check when changing into a lane that just began?)
These sorts of bike lanes that have car lanes on both sides are tragically common in Ontario. Especially near intersections. If the intersection has a dedicated right turn lane, the lane will often split off around the bike gutter. This means cars who are just planning on turning right often change lanes and cut off the bike lane without even looking back (because let’s be real, who does a full visual check when changing into a lane that just began?)