Incidentally, the lolbert Randall O'Toole of the Antiplanner is a big fan (a) of the Dutch protected intersection (a).
O'Toole usually does his research (Romance of the Rails is very good), but his own takes on how things should be done tend to be pretty abysmal.
These people are suicidal. With me in it, my car is two short tons. That'll kill you at just 30mph. If you dart out in front, I can't brake fast enough. I can try, but it's no guarantee. These are the same people btw that when they get mugged, and they don't have a gun, they blame the cops. Wait your fucking turn
They clearly have no understanding of basic physics (which is why they think you can take a full-size fridge on the bus and not suffer any consequences). They're like the idiots who slam on their brakes right in front of a huge truck and then get pissy when it smashes into them, because it was physically incapable of stopping in time.
Well I doubt many of them passed math class or work with heavy machinery. They're the type of people that just get by in life.
I can assure you the distain is mutual between mountain bikers and gravel bikers vs faggot Fred's on their road bike. Because they're right about one thing riding a mountain bike is a hobby and a fun side activity, getting on a MTB isn't an initiation into a cult where I want the world to revolve around me and making it bend to accommodate my chosen hobby. The closest thing to urbanist demands are mountain bikers not wanting have to share trails with hikers and horse riders, since most trails are on public land they have to accommodate traffic from hikers (which is usually fine) and horse riders which is not since their hooves tear up trails, shit all over them,and can be dangerous if the horses are poorly trained and spook at riders.
For sure. His thumbnail game is just the same thing over and over.
You don't even need to pass basic math or work with fancy machinery. I don't know about you but all it took for me to have a basic grasp of how heavy objects affect lighter objects is by throwing a paper plane and seeing the carnage after it impacts a brick wall or tree. Hell you don't even need that. Playing any ball based game like baseball will teach you those physics through intuition.
Do you think any of them passed P.E. without that baseball slamming them directly in the teeth?
Even worse. Those are the kinds of people who would ask their moms to create bogus reasons for them to avoid PE class back when they were in school.
You're joking, right?
But all these flawed "scientific" "studies" "proved" that it's more profitable to take away road space and give it to the restaurant. Surely the same principle applies for bikes?
If it weren't for some of them having to depend on riding e-bikes, they're basically as out of shape (powerword: fat) as any of the car brains. See: Jason.
Run them over with?... Oh they're serious about running them over with a bike. Generally a bike is the last thing you would want to run into... well anything in general, lest you want to risk falling off. Which would be fun to watch.
I know it should surprise me but it's shocking how hypocritical they are and everyone with another word has been driven off.
I have to understand many of these "Urbanists" are just insufferable bike riders. Look I get where the restaurant shouldn't be blocking the bike lane. But at the same time maybe a compromise could be found.
Believe it or not people who ride bikes should have to follow basic traffic guidelines as well.
Streets are for people, not bikes!
That's the real bitch of it. If this was something happening in my town I would absolutely be raising hell to get them to knock it off. But I know they're not mad because it's stupid and blocks traffic so some hipsters can feel heckin' chique and bohemian while they eat. They're mad that those tables aren't situated in the car lane. If they moved those tables five feet to the right into the car lane, they would be celebrating this as a win for urbanists everywhere. We are not the same.
