Where is this monstrosity?
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.
The sign might say “Tampa”, but that’s based off of like 18 pixels
Plus the road design and landscape looks pretty floridian.
Flat as fuck, stupid as shit… This screams Florida to me too.
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.
Looks like the meme was made from this twitter post.
FL-804 & Florida’s Turnpike. https://maps.app.goo.gl/1AKEkNbSW6wkhLYa8
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It’s basically an IRL Happy Wheels level.
Look, it even has the speed booster thing that launches you into the gauntlet!
That’s why we call those type of “bike lanes” a murder strip.
Have them where I live too.
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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:
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.
There used to be a sign “helping” cyclists already on the freeway by telling them “cross here with care”:
But it was obliterated by a vehicle:
I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.
Holy shit lmao
I got “Invalid Dynamic Link” on your link.
Same. Not sure what happened there. Have replaced with it’s lat long.
4PWQ2WR3+MQ here’s a plus code for ye (apparently Google’s open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)
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took a lot of training and tests to qualify to drive on roads
Those tests are stupidly easy
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Point is having a drivers license does not mean very much about whether you are competent at driving.
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Lol. Having a US driving license means you might be qualified to safely ride a tricycle on a training course.
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Heh. Wishful thinking.
I wouldn’t mind too much. Just gonna take me a few minutes to get up to merging speed.
If you don’t have solid rocket boosters on your bike for highway travel, what are you doing with your life?
I love how the made sure to get a helmet painted on that cyclist icon
“Hey, you’ll still die, but at least we’ll be able to identity your mangled corpse for your family!”
Yeah they read, the nametag in the helmet
“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.”
Hey man, it’s fuck cars, not fuck bikes.
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)
I mean, it’s an example of cars fucking over bikes. Relevant enough imo
Either way, i hope no one is foolish enough to cycle on a 4 way motorway…
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.
There’re thousands of less painful ways to quit. It’s for people who are both suicidal and adventurous lol.
I’m not sure if this is just hilariously optimistic, or some kind of sinister and deliberate murder-by–urban-planning
the first one would be my guess. They just haven’t thought it through remotely
Neither. The highway engineer got told to add a bike lane, said “ugh fine” and scribbled it along the side without thinking about it.
Nobody’s expecting these to be used, it’s some quota where they have to build X number of kms of bike lane so the politicians can placate us and hope nobody notices.
This. Its what happens when city council says do something without actually giving the millions of dollars needed to hire the folks to design an actual solution to improve the bikeability of their district
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.
Feels good to know I’m not the only big rig/bicyclist in the world.
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.
When bike lanes are made (designed) by those who never use them…
ok
Eh, I’ve ridden on worse
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