Burnaby considers reducing car speeds on bike routes
 

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/B...813/story.html


LAME

LOL

I think they'd be lucky to get that figure in one year, lulz.

I want to know how many accidents they think they'd be preventing by reducing the speed limit to 30. I understand school zones, kids run out in to the roads all the time, but I've personally seen more bikers hit parked cars than ever being hit by one.

When I lived in Ottawa an entire neighbourhood did the same: lowered speed from 50 to 40 kmph at a cost of $100K for new signage.

I wrote an article that was published in the local paper stating that this would not work, it is just an expensive measure to make people feel better. Most cars travel at ~60kmph and will continue to regardless of the sign posted, since most people adjust their speed relative to the conditions.

The first month I slowed down cause there was extra enforcement, yet by 6 months when the extra enforcement was long gone I was back to the same speed, ~60 kmph, regardless of the new signs.

Stupid measures like this will not work. It'll just push more traffic from the 30 kmph streets to the normal 40 kmph streets, and no-one will slow down for the new 40 kmph law unless enforcement is increased.

what is their sauce?

+1. just like talking on cellphones :)

for fuck sakes, seems like vancouver and area puts extra effort in creating more traffic jams and making life harder for commuters.

Stupid fucking politicians

fucking hippies

Because people will be riding their bikes up and down Kensington or whatever in freezing rain. Riiight.

What a waste of money. I blame this all on Mayor McChicken Robertson.

May as well put a bike lane going up and down Willingdon St from Metrotown to BCIT. Damn hippies ruining my good city of Burnaby, too.

My friend's wife works for city hall and that's exactly what they're doing... everything possible to discourage you from driving. They want people to take transit, car pool, etc... They made it expensive to park downtown so you think twice about driving... I say fuck it, I just won't go downtown. Haven't been there for over a year during the day.

I would love to interview all the staff at city hall to see how they got to work that morning.

I'd really like to see the data that shows 60,000 bike trips a day take place in Vancouver, I support road improvements for cyclists and even I think that numbers impossible.

fixt

ok little story.

Some lady called the cops on me 2 days ago in downtown because I revved my engine at her. She purposely slowed down on the street and a car was coming towards me while I was stuck in the middle of an intersection, so that's why I did. So at the next intersection she comes out of nowhere and stops in front of my car. I get out my car and say what the fuck are you doing bitch. She and her boyfriend were like "well that was kind of unnecessary you tried to run us over". At this point I'm just like are you fucking kidding me... then I tell them to move you're blocking traffic. Then I drove my car forward a bit and crushed her leg between her bike and my bumper because she refused to move. She started screaming and punching my cars bumper/hood. Then some guy in a Porsche behind me tells her to move also because she was blocking traffic. While this whole thing was going down, I was revving my engine and honking at her trying to get her to move, and me being pissed off I was just about to run the bitch over. She was also on the phone with the police saying I'm trying to run her over and shit, actually was pretty funny. So finally she moved and then I laid a big burnout in her face. FUCK I HATE HIPPIES. Lucky for her she was a woman, if it was a guy I'd probably murder him in the street.

the temptation was so strong to run her over... but I wasn't gonna let some 35yo welfare hippie lady trying to cause drama get to me.


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LOL WIN

If cars need to go slower when driving through bike routes, i think bikes need to go faster when they arent using bike routes.

I've got a another idea - bikers should be ticketed for not using the bike lanes when its reasonable to do. For example biking down broadway when 8th ave has a bike lane.

did I miss something? I didnt even know Gregor ran for mayor of the whole lower mainland, let alone that he won

Next time,just carry a can of bear mace in the car,don't even argue with them,just spray them in the face as you drive by and watch them drop to the ground,twitching and screaming in extreme pain.Since you drive a RHD vehicle,it would be alot easier to hit them with the bear mace too.

I always have a can in my car,used it a few times too on some crackheads and wannabe gangsters.

rofl the city's street aren't even wide enough to take all the increasing number of cars due to immigrants, and now they add more bicycle lanes and slow the speed down. Fucking pathetic.

well if this is true, then go fucking fix the unreliable POS transit system we have now before trying to convince us to take more public transit.

oh another note, if they think its us drivers that are unsafe near bikers, maybe they should start ticketing bikers for every little infraction because they r the ones that think they're the king of the roads and do what ever they want and cause US DRIVERS to look unsafe.

u know, people will still drive down, and sit through traffic jams, burining gas and releasing more green house gases. thats what i do.

FUCK VANC government.

Yup... costs almost $1k to park in NYC each month... and there's still traffic jams. The one thing I noticed while I was in NY was that this actually separated the poor from the rich. I didn't feel safe taking their subway at all.

I HATE HIPPIES
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