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@rcannon100 191845 wrote:

Hey hey hey. Dont be dissing on me mates at VDOT.

VDOT routinely designs intersections which pedestrians must cross 3 times in order to cross the street, just because they want cars to have a guaranteed zero-wait signal. They deserve all the dissing they can get.

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it really all depends on how slow we’re talking about AMIRITE?

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@Starduster 191805 wrote:

Before we get too distracted, this is about single use bottles, etc, that are now a huge pollution hazard, not your structural plastics…

Forget plastics, the biggest pollution from a peloton are those little foil goo dispensers and all the damn banana peels.

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I wonder if you can enter a video into the record at a public meeting

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@Drewdane 191759 wrote:

It’s actually a very well-made video by The Guardian, discussing cyclist behavior in traffic, some of the reasons why we do the things we do, and whether it’s really as bad as non-cyclists are always complaining about.

I have a pretty high threshold before clicking a random video link, so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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@Ohio Traveler 191727 wrote:

My girlfriend and I are planning on passing through over the weekend on the way to N Myrtle Beach. We were curious about any decent trails near Wytheville? I see there is a New River Trail as well as the Virginia Creeper Trail. Unfortunately, I’m not sure are bikes are designed for those trails in regards to the surface. Any asphalt trails in that part of the state?

I wouldn’t do either trail on a track bike, but they don’t require mountain bikes either; something like a hybrid or a road bike with 28s or bigger tires would be fine. Creeper trail is probably better for a single day outing, with more trail amenities. New River trail is very nice, but make sure you plan water & food if you’re doing the whole thing (it’s longer than the creeper trail, so you’ll need more planning–if you do a section it can be about the same).

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why on earth would someone watch a troll bait video asking an inane question?

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@Starduster 191704 wrote:

We do. And have since a road safety awakening started in the 1950’s. Aren’t you glad?[/quote]
I’d be glad if a similar amount of money were spent protecting people not in cars from drivers who drive off the road. As it stands, no, I’m not glad about the unequal allocation of limited resources.

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@Starduster 191691 wrote:

Breakaway traffic light pole replaced

This society sure does spend a lot of money protecting drivers who drive off the road from themselves, doesn’t it?

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@lordofthemark 191693 wrote:

without changes to the road.

I need my “make it so” meme!

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@dasgeh 191683 wrote:

Thanks Henry (and FTFY)

It’s really frustrating that this is how the County makes decisions. We just had an extensive public process for the Bike Element, where the County Board weighed in to tell staff they weren’t going far enough. And then in the first test, staff doesn’t even propose one option that is consistent with the Bike Element that was just adopted. And in not doing so, they have skewed public perception — the public thinks that a compromise would be something between A and C, when C is already a compromise down from what the County Board adopted as policy in the Bike Element.

Fairfax does the same thing. It makes it seriously hard to justify the effort of getting a pike/ped plan put together in the first place, since it ends up not actually meaning anything at all.

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@n18 191697 wrote:

GPS alone won’t work, but GPS+Fisheye camera would help finding the exact location, unless it’s at night time. I doubt that scooter companies would add cameras though.

It would have to work at night, but that’s doable. The real question is whether we’re ready for scooters to become 24/7 surveillance devices. (Which is basically what you’d need, in order to identify who’s actually messing with the scooter.)

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@dbb 191671 wrote:

I would hope that there are no Right on Red collisions in the next four months. The optics wouldn’t be particularly good if there were additional collisions as the DES staff reflects on the need for an intervention.

I’m sure it will quickly be closed with a “no, because cars”.

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@zsionakides 191660 wrote:

Moving it 10 feet doesn’t change where it was originally left by the user and the 10ft movement can be picked up by either GPS

No, it really can’t. Consumer GPS isn’t that good.

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@creadinger 191604 wrote:

Yeah, it seems like when other road-type thingies exceed the user capacity they add lanes and lanes and lanes… so why is nobody talking about making the CCT, a 6-lane bikeway with specific space for pedestrians and everyone else? Why does widening only work for highways?

NIMBYs

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