Hoopdriver

Not quite sure how this should be navigated. I reckon I need to practice my bunny hops.

mcours2006

Where is this?

daoswald

This demonstrates that we have a long way to go before eBikes can begin supporting lane-following AI.

ripkin

Nice.

I feel like even if you can bunny hop that, you’ll probably fall off the side of the bridge...!

Hoopdriver

Posted on twitter by Bike Shop Hub in Tuscon, AZ. No location mentioned.

CB HI

It perfectly expresses motorist sentiments of "GET THE HELL OFF OUR ROADS!"

mcours2006

I could see someone riding with his head down looking at the road crashing into that barrier. That's just awful.

REDMASTA

no location or other information probably fake news

indyfabz

That was my first thought.

mcours2006

You mean someone doctored the photo? NOOO WAY!

genec

Either way, that change of elevation right at the white line edge isn't all that great of an idea either.

Hoopdriver

Fake news? Never!

Investigation led to me discovering that this picture was posted to a Hungarian site in 2012 showing the lane before it was completed. The intent was to redirect the rather narrow bike lane from the road to the narrow sidewalk to cross a bridge in Budapest.

Here is the google street view now

genec

So the real question is did they drill three unnecessary holes in the ground to do that picture, or did someone go through all the effort of painting the bike path around the poles and barrier... either way it was a waste of time and effort.

Hoopdriver

Well, like everywhere else there is little coordination between trades in public works projects (especially), or any other construction project for that matter. Wastes of time and effort are unfortunately built into our economy. If every thing was done with efficiency within budget, we'd make a significant portion of the workforce redundant.

JoeyBike

I believe Wile E. Coyote painted that bike lane to injure the Road Runner.

Shimagnolo

Kind of like the busy 5-lane street right outside my housing addition;
First, they completely repaved the entire street;
Then two weeks later, they dug a huge trench right down the middle of the freshly-paved street to do utility work.

genec

Sir, I believe you are correct... winner winner winner!

CliffordK

At least around here, the road engineers put a lot of effort into making a mess of things.

Two bike paths come to a "T". Just no way to get from one to another without riding on the sidewalk for a block south, or a few blocks north.

https://www.google.com/maps/@44.0650.../data=!3m1!1e3


EWEB path to Rosa Parks path, Springfield, OR


Rosa Parks path to EWEB path, Springfield, OR

A deliberate effort was done to block the connection including the guard rail, on one side, a segment of fence on the other side, along with prickly hedge.

It is a 2 lane road, but already has several stop lights, as well as a yellow blinking light several blocks north of the path intersection.

And, traffic tends to pulse, so one should be able to get across with as simple crosswalk if one is careful (or the city could time crossing lights to coincide with the other stoplights).

Daniel4

Or if everything was run efficiently and all our problems solved, there'd be nobody working.

indyfabz

So in other words, this condition no longer exists and was never really meant to be used. In light of the wording of the OP, fake news indeed.

Hoopdriver

It seems that your definition of fake encompasses changes in condition, so when things are altered, the former condition must be fake because it no longer exists in reality. Unusual take on the world, friend. The intent of the planners has nothing to do with reality because, since the faulty configuration did exist, it could have been and probably was used, albeit with a bit of difficulty.

jon c. 

A most amusing manner in which to order the work. Good work in locating that.

JoeyBike

He has been known to do this.

salcedo

Good detective work!

salcedo

It disagree. It existed in that state at least temporarily. Old news is different from fake news.