Cities generally have a fixed budget for infrastructure and maintenance.

This means that resources put towards bike infrastructure are taken out of car infrastructure resources, but because cities tend to have elected people setting policies on alternative infrastructure, it is rare that you get a properly implemented city plan that benefits drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Take my area; to use a bicycle to get groceries, I have to leave my place and go onto a single lane road with parking and pedestrian only sidewalks on both sides.

This goes around a blind corner to a busier two lane street with parking on both sides and a shared pedestrian/bike path… that is on the far side of the road with no crosswalk, that runs for 500 meters, dumping you at an unlit intersection that has a road going away from the shops that has a pedestrian only sidewalk on the opposite side of a two lane road, and a gravel shoulder used for parking on the near side.

The route you need to take is a right turn onto an unlit two lane road with no shoulder, down a steep hill.

This road has traffic calming at the far end with those white traffic sticks to prevent people from parking on the side… forcing cyclists out into the center of the road right before they need to turn right…

…onto a wonderfully engineered road with lights, plenty of driving space, parking, and a set-back shared bike and pedestrian way…

…that then loses that a km further on, directing foot and bike traffic onto what is now a narrow two lane road.

Then through another intersection, on the far side of which, there’s sidewalks, then a bike lane, then parking, then a two lane road.

On this stretch, the only like it in the city, cars open their doors into car traffic onto one side and bike traffic on the other. Many larger vehicles park into the bike lane. At intersections, the bike lane is invisible to turning vehicles.

But all that’s OK, because this road dumps cyclists onto a four lane highway with no bike lane and a sidewalk that has obstacles that make it impossible to push a stroller down it, let alone ride a bike on it.

This takes you to the shops, where as a cyclist you have to ride the length of the parking lot to get to the limited bike racks by the loading bay, and THEN walk all the way back through the parking lot to get to the shops.

And I know this isn’t uncommon. It makes bikes visibly annoying to car drivers, creates unavoidable choke points, and statistics indicate regular use of this route will eventually end in injury.

Seems to be how this one works; unlikely to be successful.

I’m more interested in how you managed to pull off dating yourself :D

Most Democratic senators’ word is about as trustworthy as a Republican’s word.

Only action matters at this point; anything else will be considered lies and half truths.

In civilized countries that’s called kidnapping.

Whose definition of robot are you using? Mechanical servant? Android? Self-navigating electronics?

Is an artificial limb a robot?

“Mission Accomplished.”

Rambo: First Blood was filmed in Canada. Just saying.

So, the US amassing military in the Middle East, latin America, Greenland and the US. China must be very happy right now. Russia too.

No. It does not make sense for Russia to keep fighting. They should go home.

The problem with that is the rash of deaths of people with copyright over desirable content.

And this isn’t just speculative.

That’s the conservative way.

I suspect the Venezuela and Greenland things are really to provoke a war so he can suspend elections indefinitely and have some modicum of support for it.

I read that as “lighter” and [Pam] Bondi at first.

Good on ya, Oz!

The trick is, how do you make a statement federally without disrupting the state?

Macron, don’t join. The rest if the world will happily increase our purchase of your wines to offset losses stemming from any decrease in sales you experience in the US.

I’m guessing 30% of Americans think that the king of Norway mints Nobel prizes in Greenland?

I don’t think they do. But they DO think there are billionaires who will support their personal views and provide dividends to the worthy few right thinkers.

Why are they responding with tariffs?

They should be responding with sanctions.

My imagined Trump response:

“Sure thing! Where is she?”