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Edit: "oh man these cars sure are dangerous and keep almost hitting me, this bike lane just has to go!"
He's complaining about stopping at the side of a road that already has a speeding problem.
How the fuck does removing the bike lanes improve this situation?
If your stroad is too dangerous for people to be around.... Then reduce the fucking speed limit.
There are a litany of practices around improving street safety, which usually involve actually making streets narrower, adding speed bumps and sometimes even removing entire lanes. People drive slower down single file streets, and aren't as comfortable speeding without the illusionary "safety margin" of extra lanes.
As a bonus, this frees up more space for pedestrians, cyclists and physical dividers, which then pick up and often surpass the lost transport capacity.
Instead this clown wants to widen a road that drivers are already too comfortable speeding on. He himself complains that they zone out and don't pay attention. But that's just an unsolvable problem we have to work around I guess.
The article goes on to explain that the speed limit is unclear. And this man wants to make it even easier to NOT slow down?!
These people don't care about facts and science.
He looks like the guy thats uses the car to drive to the loo.