I have seen lots of people complain about painted bike lanes but couple days ago i tried one in area where the speed limit is like 30kmh and it actually felt very comfortable and safe. I assume most people complain about painted bike lanes cus they are often put next to like 60mph stroad or something similar and in that scenario i can understand why people would dislike it.

One second delay? I have had drivers almost kill me to shave 10 seconds off their commute. Car brain is real and it's deadly.

Sadly even having solid concrete evidence that bike lanes don't impact traffic, NIMBYs will still manage to undo progress. Case and point: look at the bike lanes in downtown Culver City. Despite the city's own study demonstrating negligible impact on traffic (at MOST 2 minutes along the corridor heading Westbound), the city council voted to remove the bike lanes under pressure from NIMBYs. Most of those traffic volume increases could be explained by people returning to work after pandemic WFH policies expired.

I live in the Netherlands, and we have a lot of painted bike lanes. Even on roads where cars go 50km/h (~30 freedom units) I feel perfectly safe. On 30km/h roads (18.6 miles) there often aren't even painted lines in smaller streets. All car driving lessons have to be given by licensed instructors, and they keep drilling in to check for bikes and dead spots, etc. Additionally, almost all drivers are bicyclists themselves. Everything together I usually feel very safe on almost any road

My city is working on a road diet and I'm psyched. It's one of our main roads, central to the city, where poverty is somewhat concentrated. I'm on the west so it won't do much for me, but that's okay. I attended the community forum, right after reading Jeff Speck's walkability book & advocated hard. Roughly a $15 million dollar project. I like the idea of starting with a painted lane as a prototype. People are gonna be pissed in my town & the people who it'll actually help aren't super likely to be engaged politically. :( And our local media literally hasn't covered the project! Construction should start in 2025 though.

One could say that a painted bike gutter is a lot like a pair of training wheels. It gives people a means of practicing what it's like to live with it, while making sure that people aren't afraid of it being permanent should it prove to be unsuccessful.

Awesome video about how incremental change is still progress!

This is incredible to hear! Now, how do we get from painted bike lanes to curb-separated or even raised bike lanes? :D

I'm not at all part of the "Car Culture" I've been on 2 wheels for over 20 years. Tbh, I make better time on my mountain bike, than the local bus. I can get to my local mall in half an hour, when the bus will take the full hour. Haven't tested it on a run to work, but the nice days are for my motorcycle.

Great video!

I use to live in Hong Kong... The idea of moving the bike lanes to one end and separating them from traffic was more than obvious.... Now if they can just switch them position of the grass and the bike lanes as well... Bike are light and slow enough that you don't need space between the pedestrian way and the bike lane, but you will between the bike lanes and the roadway. The patch of grass can serve as space for car owners to get out of as well

As a Burbank resident who both walks and bikes ( Even though I own a fuel efficient vehicle) let me add something to the equation. I wish that the city would add steep fines to people who still ride their bicycles down the sidewalk of Verdugo. On my walks from Florence Ave to Smart & Final ( at Hollywood and Verdugo) require being on constant vigilance for bicycles (at high speed) believing they have right of way on the sidewalks. Verdugo needs to be signed " no riding on sidewalk" .

I live right next to a major street that, for about two or three dozen blocks, has zero traffic lights or stop signs. The bike lanes are painted "lanes" that would have me riding right up near the gutters, were I to have a bike. And they share the right lane. And they share the space for cars to pull over and park. And cars get in it when they're about to make a right turn, and drive it until they reach their turn. And each lane is separated, one on each side of the street. And the paint is faded in some places because Clark County does shit when it comes to maintaining even the streets themselves, let alone the bike lanes, in my area of town. Also Vegas drivers don't care for shit about traffic laws, I have people on my side street I live on zooming down going 50 every single day, mainly the drivers with souped up engines that break everyone's eardrums while they constantly max their RPM for maximum noise, and mainly the drivers who will cut off a sirens-blaring ambulance if it means getting to turn right before them, in the dead of night. Needless to say, I don't feel safe one bit biking in Vegas.

came from this comment of yours on a video of Oh The Urbanity! titled "Do Urban Highways Prove NIMBYs Right?" did sub just now! - mico

I think we get into a pattern of expecting the same solutions will work for every situation. This is what has happened with paint, & plastic sticks. On low speed, low volume streets with little through traffic trying to ejaculate out of the city & peak time, it absolutely can do what it’s best at: suggesting a lineation of how space is supposed to be used. Trying to use the same tools on a 120’ wide, one-way stroad with high design speeds & high volume is just stupidly! Your suggestion of it being a way to install a demonstration project to get people used to the change has validity in the proper context. Again, just using temporary suggestion materials that can be ignored easily will not work for anyone not already using the stroad. It’s taken 7 years for Denver to get from a “temporary” bike lane on such a stroad to a decent PBL. Still under construction because car infrastructure improvements had to come first, there’s still no plan to revisit how well it’s working after installation-finish & forget! This is how paint & suggestive markers get the reputation & don’t create welcoming spaces for cars.

As a Dane, hardly any major roads in Cities are without a - separate bike lane and in both sides of a road. Not only paint but an actual separation and no need to cross a road to be able to ride it in the wrong direction for the traffic to expect! Danes and Dutch people uses bikes as transport to a much higher degree, also using Cargo bikes. We even have a bridge crossing the Cph. harbor only for walkers and bikes. Finn. Denmark

Great video. Citizen advocacy is super important. This reminds me of a pilot going on in Austin right now which is "temporary" but given how plainly obvious it is that car traffic was barely impacted by the road diet, will likely become permanent (Barton Springs road)

Vedugo's great until you cross out of Burbank. Then it's Camarillo. You get a lane for a while, then sort of a lane, then sharrows for about a second, and by the time you hit Cahuenga it's a skinny lane with no bike markings. I live at the edge of Toluca Lake, so I usually cut up Pass and ride side streets to get home, but it sure would be nice to have another proper East/West corridor. Oooh, and it would be cool if Hollywood Way South of Victory wasn't scary to ride, since North of it has some decent bike lanes. But I do appreciate Verdugo, and even the short extension on the west end shows that adding bike infrastructure encourages the addition of more.

At 4:00 it says that in September there were 186 bikes compared to May at 212, doesn't that mean the bike lanes brought decrease in cyclists on that street? I'm confused.

At 3:55 is it not one second shorter EB and 13 seconds shorter WB after the reconfiguration? As in, not longer at all? Or maybe I'm reading the chart wrong.

I like the climbs near Burbank. They are steep but too short.

I live right off of verdugo and it's literally fine.

Is it wrong to use 10% of the are for 2% of the traffic, if those 2% is 15% of the transportation work? Cars generate traffic, while bikes and public transit generates transportation.

I didn't know Burbank is on the coast - lol. One can also get to the Red Line in NoHo car free going the other direction

San Diego installed many of these lanes along commuter roads at great expense and inconvenience to residents. I note that they are almost never used by bikers. why? San Diego is not Amsterdam or Copenhagen. It is extremely hilly here due to all of the canyons, so you would have to be an olympic athlete to use them. It seems to me that city hall was kowtowing to a few loudmouthed bicycle activists. They made the laughable argument that bicycling was needed to forestall global warming. That's like waving a paper fan at an oncoming hurricane. If they were really worried about global warming, they could always just take the bus, since these were installed along commuter roads.

I'm more a Ebike kind of guy.

71.76 to 287.04... I really think this decimals make little sense. Can you estimate this to the precision of the fifth order? Plus, I don't believe these numbers, they are just too big for the bike. A person emits CO2 even if they sit and drive in the car and I doubt that the emission of sitting person is less than half of that of an active person.

california is literally perfect for biking idk why anyone wants to get in their hot car and pay for gas

Dedicated bicycle lanes ! Why not dedicated lanes for convertibles only, dedicated lanes for small SUVs, dedicated lanes for EVs or why not dedicated lanes for RVs. Why not make all streets 20 lanes wide and a lane dedicated to everyone ! Bicycle are subject to all road rules. If a city wants to dedicate something how about dedicating education and if that's too difficult establish annual Darwin Awards.

For the privileged, sharing feels like oppression. Now a days cars and trucks just honk before running a light or a stop 🛑 sign. As if its an entitlement.

Burbank also accommodates horse riders. However the equestrian zones are very limited and not particularly useful for commuting. I think Burbank should make greater efforts to encourage riding horses throughout the city as a more environmentally friendly way to commute

I’m never a fan of the “go to city hall” concept. I’m an autistic adult who just wants to be able to not have to drive but going in front of a large group of people and speaking absolutely terrifies me. I understand that the system is designed to around those who have spoken out but the way the system is implemented fails people like myself and that politicians need to directly ask constituents via polls and such and aim for 100% response rates instead of listening to the 1% of the population that A) has the time to go often and B) don’t have the disabilities.

You had me until you suggested a twoway bikelane on one side of the roadway. Yes you feel safe, until you get hit at an intersection or driveway because drivers don’t see or expect you on the wrong side of the road, violating 100+ years of traffic norms and laws.

good narration: 1. spandex batman 2. carbon emissions road diet man, how is your script good!??!?!

Stick to the point and maybe skip the bad editing lol

Dude we’re not gonna build a whole new infrastructure just for a couple of cyclists. You’re in the minority. Consider yourself extremely lucky to have a painted bike lane.

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