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I honestly hate green bike lane paint. Make bike lanes fucking normal, stop spending extra money on a coating of slick paint that ironically lowers bike tire grip just to imply that they're some special unique infrastructure which the city has no real plan to commit to. Asphalt blacktop as the default road surface was standardized by cyclists, don't keep us from it!
I think it is less about "Look this is special" and more of a "Please don't drive full speed down this strip and kill someone"
Transportation planners should know better. Paint asks, concrete demands.
In my country we have red asphalt for bicycles lanes. Not asphalt with paint over it but, color mixed in with the asphalt.
And the green and blue many countries use for bicycle lanes is ugly as hell. The brownish brick red my country uses looks way better. Blends in with nature and the urban environment since it’s the color of brick.
Yeah if the dye is in the asphalt then that's fine, doesn't ruin the rolling properties. I wonder how that looks after it gets torn up and recycled (Old asphalt that gets torn up gets remixed and reused).
It was? May I please have the entrance to that rabbit hole?
You sure can!