• BassTurd@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    This about the dumbest post I’ve seen today. How dare these people exercise safety so that they can install the fucking safety barriers that you want for the bike lanes. Holy shit, take a step back and get a sense of reality.

    • Zagorath@aussie.zone
      1·
      6 months ago

      The point is that the teeny little barriers they’re installing which are supposedly adequate for cyclists’ safety are far less protection than the massive buffer they have as protection while installing them.

      It’s not about blaming the people doing the installation, it’s about highlighting the government’s hypocrisy when it comes to cyclist safety.

      • BassTurd@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        I get the point. It’s just a shitty point. We can agree that the bike lane is not sufficiently safe, and you claim that those barriers are inadequate, but comparing the safety of bikers in the bike lane vs workers literally working in the car lane, and somehow correlating them shutting down that lane as hypocrisy is a shit argument. Apples and oranges.

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      02·
      6 months ago

      Butt hurt much?

      Why didnt they barricade the car lane off and use that to install the bike barrier lane protectors from ? Use stop / go personell so cars can use the other lane.

      They’ve blocked the entire cycle lane with what looks like a compressor up ahead as well (presumably to supply a pneumatic drill for the bolts)

      Or here’s an idea, install concrete barricades from the back of a truck with a crane that actually project cyclists from being murdered.

      • douglasg14b@lemmy.world
        1·
        6 months ago

        Butt hurt much

        Please go back to Facebook, YouTube comments, or even Reddit with this petulant behavior.

        No one here wants this sort of low quality, personally, attacking, bratty behavior in their discussions.

  • Drusas@kbin.run
    2·
    6 months ago

    Look at the picture you shared. They are using the bike lane. They are also using the car lane. Obviously they need to block both or they would be idiots looking to get run over.

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    6 months ago

    I’m assuming these people aren’t official DoT workers, but a collective of citizens clandestinely installing cycling safety infrastructure. Could be wrong, just my immediate assumption.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 months ago

      yeah I can’t imagine someone who does this for a job would carry a claw hammer. or that it would take so many people to bolt down each pylon. like I dunno maybe one or 2 to drill the holes, one to install and bond the studs, one to bolt the pylons down, and a traffic guy in each direction.

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
        1·
        6 months ago

        The concrete anchors are often ones you tap in first with the hammer to first set them into place. Then, you crank the bolt down, which drives out the anchor into the surrounding material. The hammer is just to get it started and fully down the bore hole.

        You might also use it to align the pylon. It’s easier to tap the base gently to move it a few cm into place over the holes than to pick the whole pylon up and down while aligning it.

  • Fugtig Fisk@feddit.dk
    0·
    6 months ago

    Im blocking this community. Not because i love cars but because this is too extreme and manipulative