Wahots@pawb.social to micromobility - Bikes, scooters, boards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month agoBike lane sweepers- more cities need thesem.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square17linkfedilinkarrow-up159
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minus-squareCosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-230 days agoSo, the bike lane gets made. The sunk cost is already gone. They throw tacks on the bike lanes because they don’t want to share the road. The bike lanes don’t get used, but the space is still gone. How do tacks help their cause or is this a “I’m mad and I want other people to suffer” situation?
minus-squaretimbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·30 days agoThey’ll point to “no one uses them” and argue to remove them and convert back to car lanes.
So, the bike lane gets made. The sunk cost is already gone.
They throw tacks on the bike lanes because they don’t want to share the road.
The bike lanes don’t get used, but the space is still gone.
How do tacks help their cause or is this a “I’m mad and I want other people to suffer” situation?
They’ll point to “no one uses them” and argue to remove them and convert back to car lanes.