I see this pretty much every time I ride. Multiple times. 😮💨
Showroom7561
joined 2 years ago
Merz hailed the deal, which was clinched in a ballroom at Trump’s golf resort in Scotland, saying it avoided “needless escalation in transatlantic trade relations” and averted a potentially damaging trade war.
Nothing about this "deal" prevents Trump from being Trump.
EU caved, and that's a massive show of weakness.
Less really is more! LOL
Dr. Sbaitso never asked me to commit atrocities.
Oh, just wait. AI will all be tweaked to sell you shit.
It's only a matter of time before product placement in AI generated photos and videos becomes a thing, too.
"Stop the windmills", he said.
Wow, what a read!
I was never a Komoot user. What happened to them, and the direction they are taking, is bound to happen to any and all platforms where corporate greed is the driving force.
Every single place that mandated helmets (or heavily promoted) saw absolutely no reduction in death/injury.
There are too many variables to go over every country (i.e. mandated only for kids and teens). And even when they are mandated, compliance may still be low (B.C, Canada has helmet laws for all ages, yet compliance is <70%).
That said, every study I've seen, including meta-data analysis, shows benefit.
For instance THIS very recent study:
"The empirical evidence based on the real-world hospital and police data as well as biomechanical studies confirms that wearing a helmet while cycling is beneficial, regardless of age and crash severity, in collisions with others or not. The relative benefit is higher in high-risk situations and when cycling on shared roads. The findings from the meta-analyses studies that have been reviewed in this paper are remarkably consistent."
The classic example is Australia – it had almost no helmet usage prior to passing a nationwide law. The law was strictly enforced with extremely high fines, and yet there was no real change comparing before/after the law.
Wait, what? This Australia?
Quoting Professor Jake Olivier of UNSW’s School of Mathematics and Statistics and Deputy Director of the Transport and Road Safety (TARS) Research Centre:
"There was an immediate 46 per cent reduction in the rate of cycling fatalities per 100,000 population following the introduction of bicycle helmet legislation in Australia,” he says.
“This decline has been maintained since 1990 and we estimate 1332 fewer cycling fatalities associated with the introduction of bicycle helmet legislation to date.”
And you also have to consider that non-injuries (i.e. walking away from a fall because of your helmet) won't be reported, so the benefit may very well be significantly higher.
All I can say is that I'd rather be wearing a helmet than not, in the event that my head hits any object, at any speed. It's such a "set and forget" piece of gear, and I know people who have walked away from crashes (not involving cars, just crashes due to poor surfaces) yet their helmets basically crumbled upon impact. Way better than the alternative.
But you do you. I don't want to force anyone to do something they don't automatically see as a benefit on the bike.
As one study put it, "Unhelmeted injured cyclists were frequent commuter cyclists who generally do not regard cycling as safe yet choose not to wear helmets for reasons largely related to convenience and comfort. " 🤷♂️
Yup. Spend hundreds of millions so that more people can sit in traffic? No problem, we'll start work tomorrow!
Ask for a 100m multiuse path so that cyclists don't get killed by crazed SUV drivers? "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR GODDAMN MIND?? Who is going to pay for that? What about the kids? How will seniors survive?! What about my parking space! Cyclists don't follow the rules! Where's your helmet?!! I didn't see you!!!!!" 😒😮💨
"There is a common goal, to make city streets safe."
Really? It sounds like cyclists are disproportionately being targeted, while the real dangers are being treated lightly.
But I'll also say that I hate the fact that an industry (i.e. food delivery) is ruining cycling for everyone else.
I wonder if a cast iron crock pot would work, too. Those are dirt cheap second hand. They weigh a ton, though 😞
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Best practice for tagging bike routes with no road markings (i.e. no sharrows or bike lanes)?
(lemmy.ca)
We have bike routes all over, and they are signed with something as shown.
But most of these will have a bike lane or sharrows along with the Bike Route signs.
However, I ran into one road that doesn't, it's just signed.
What's the best way to tag these roads? I don't want to cause confusion, but these unpainted (but signed) roads do actually lead to/from better cycling infrastructure, so they should be known.
UPDATE: Thanks for all the input, guys. Having looked into this further, I'm comfortable using the designated tag, at least for this specific road.
My municipality is a bit bipolar with their application of these signs. Most are signed as bike routes with toad markings, but a few are signed only.
Because these "bike routes" connect to more significant cycling infrastructure, I think its more than valid to tag them as “designated” as opposed to "yes" (which would be pretty much every road).
To add even more confusion to the situation, the official Cycling infrastructure map for my municipality seems to not include several areas that have both bike route signs and road markings, so i will ask them if the data is just lagging or if it needs to be updated.
So, unless there's a critical reason why the "designated" tag shouldn't be used in this context, I will leave it at that.
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Ford government unveils more details on plan to curb new bike lanes on major roads
(www.thestar.com)
... and they use YouTube to host their informational videos.
"Please allow us to interrupt your research with intrusive targeted ads, so you can have a superior browsing experience." 🤡
Return to office = return to distractions for most people.
If you want people to do productive work, you need to put them in an environment that gives them that opportunity.
If that's an office, fine. But if that's at home (a.k.a "Home office"), or at a cafe, or on the beach, that should be fine, too!