Paint only bike lanes should be banned and only protected or fully separated bike lanes allowed

Also as a cyclist, I often avoid these bike lanes because they are full of rubbish, large drain holes, water etc. then I get cars honking at me because I’m not in the bike lane despite it being for more dangerous than the road

​@@JHA854unfortunately this is also the case with separated bike lanes when they're underfunded

What's sad is that the designers of the bike lanes know they're shit but they're forced to build them to appease the budget allocation, biking in The USA literally looks like a death sentence, no wonder nobody does it. Every bike lane should be clearly marked, colour coded and separated from the road via a barrier, preferably a tree line but even then it's so noisy on American roads which would be a deterrent but I suppose this solves itself with the adoption of bikes, public transport, EV's and perhaps hydrogen powered vehicles. In every video of someone biking in The USA you see illegally parked vehicles in the bike lane, drivers acting like it's not even there, the bike lane passing through a junction, etc. All of these problems are solved if you separate it from the main road.

Painted bike lanes are not bike infrastructure, they're car infrastructure. They offer no protection for cyclists. Their entire purpose is to get bikes out of the way so cars can drive faster and more dangerously.

Can't believe I used to ride this regularily as a teenager. Uytae rode some of the same chunks that I used to commute on.

My immediate thought when he said he'd be biking in Surrey: "No! He's too precious!"

It’s the type of stroad I ride on to work 😭😭

Fr who needs horror films when you can just watch someone bike along that tiny little lane with SUVs and buses going by 😭

it's nuts hey?

Like the South Fraser Perimeter highway here in Surrey/Delta. Terrifying as the average person is actually driving 110+ km/h.

I thought bike riders enjoy it.

@@ninjanerdstudent6937 Some of us don't have death wishes and just want to get around while exercising.

@@fernbedek6302 I see. Please tell me more.

Lol I live in the midwest US and most of the roads I'm riding on are country roads where people drive 60+mph(100+kmh) no bike lanes, or even painted stripes in the middle or anything. Also not many cars, but I still never ride without a mirror

This is happening in some areas of Toronto but only in some areas. Maybe in suburbs they could swap the position of grassed boulevards with the scary painted bike lanes. I know it would be expensive to retrofit, but if it were done in new developments at least.

@@not_old_yet Given how little sidewalks are used why not just join the sidewalk, grass strip, and the gutter lane into one proper width mixed use path.

@@leathandris6734 That would be ideal. On the really wide roads with wide boulevards, it would be nice to retain a strip of green, maybe with trees. Beside the multi-use (What a lovely dream!) ☺️

@@leathandris6734 I hate mixed use paths. Pedestrians are much slower and less directionally stable than bikes.

That's how most of the protected bike lanes are designed in NYC.

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We need to vote him out. Unfortunately the voting rate at local elections is very low

@@420greatestqueen I mean, he still bleeds

Kens Sims audacity to turn a boardroom into a private dojo almost seems like it could be in an episode of parks and recreation.

​@@420greatestqueen Most people don't realize that their local mayor and city council have more effect on their daily lives than who's PM and running the country at the federal level. Unfortunately, local politics don't get enough attention. I'm hoping Sim gets booted from office in the next election! So far his term as mayor has been a disaster, but incumbents have a big advantage so there needs to be a strong candidate and a well-organized team to oppose him.

Can we just make Uytae the mayor already

Repairs for car roads are more expensive cause cars destroy the roads more. Also, the expense of the more car accidents. Watch Not Just Bikes on how more expensive and subsided highways and suburbs are. Not Just Bikes has a video on how Japanese trains move millions of people per day.

Mayor of Copenhagen: "we built a lot of bike infrastructure after WWII because we couldn't afford car infrastructure."

After doing more research, trust me humanity is doomed. We are headed for probably mass death in about 50-100 years so trust me this is the least of our worries. Humans are just stupid, selfish creatures. Our best hope right now is to minimize the damage humans will cause and to try and protect as many species as we can so that after the carnage the Earth can maybe heal. I don't think humans will go fully extinct but we are probably about to go through some DARK times.

This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about! Getting people safely to their destinations is only half of the problem!

​@@lizzehWatch Shifter on how to prevent bike theft. One is putting bike racks in visible areas. I think Japanology had a video on biking with a giant underground bike locker. It's good if work places had bike lockers. Criminals make plans on people based on observing people's daily consistent schedules. There needs to be good train or bus infrastructure so people aren't left stranded if their bike is stolen. CityNerd said he biked to Walmart and they wouldn't let him in cause he had a backpack. They told him to put it in his car which he didn't have. We need to stop discrimination against nondrivers too. I prefer walkability so I and poor people don't have to deal with bike theft or train fees or schedules.

@@user-gu9yq5sj7c Another option is folding bikes that you can bring with you.

Buy a chain lock. Always secure your bike on a pole or tree or the bike rack. Chain through the frame. Around the object, then chain through the front wheel and then connect the lock. Regards from a real Dutch.

Levi! Come to Canadian Civil Alive!

Petitioning FutureProof to make a video about how fixedgear bikes and the ultimate future-proof vehicle with how simple they are and how good they are for your longevity and health. Even if the world ends, bikes would still be king.

Overused comment

@@YungStinkyWinky "Even if the world ends" Where would you get new tires?

As a born and raised Floridian, I would only ride on sidewalks or bike paths. I'm not sharing any road with the local drivers.

In the extremely suburban Lakewood Ranch development in Florida there are some very good multi-use paths that are separated from traffic. Unfortunately the network doesn’t nearly cover the whole area.

as a former floridian moved to NC, i miss florida bike lanes

I recently moved from Tampa to Winter Haven. While Tampa isn't great for bikes, Winter Haven is actively hostile. We don't even get painted bike gutters, and city ordinances prohibit riding on sidewalks in "business districts" (meaning anywhere more than 50% of the street frontage is devoted to business).

You've got a bike lane?! Lucky bastard

That's where I learned to ride on two wheels! It's such a great bike path.

Really sucked when it wasn't paved lol

Nice and it's still S tier

Heyyy just like me! ... And countless thousands of others.

My closest grocery store is about a 30 minute walk or a 10 minute bike ride with moderate hills

good for you... My wife and I go to the grocery store once a week. We get 3-4 bags of grociers and 1-2 gallons of milk. Can't put that on a bike. I'm 6'-4" 230lbs, and bench 250lbs. No way I'm carrying 3-4 bags of grociers and 1-2 gallons of milk 5,10,15 blocks. The great thing is, I DON'T HAVE TO! I have a car for that. It's wonderful. You should really try it. The freedom a car gives you is truly amazing. Can't recomend it enough...

@@bikebudha01 You could easily fit that on a bike.

@@antonioiniguez1615 really, I have 5 bikes, and couldn't fit that on any of them...

fellow Austin urban cyclist here (also originally from North Austin/Cedar Park, moved to Central Austin). I love that neighborhood and I love its bike lanes. it really is quite unfortunate how it's a little bit of a bubble, whenever I want to go to the area I have to cross I35 via 51st and it's just never pleasant.

better than my small city in Alabama most everyday places are in a 5 mile radius with no bike lanes

@@Sporcle1 ugh I hate that crossing. Drivers get so unpredictable at the roundabout. It's further south on i35, but I've heard good things about crossing at the rock shop near Wilshire Blvd. The neighborhood streets that connect from there to Mueller are comfortable to ride.

@@scruf153 No doubt, it's nice to have anything at all. But the nature of infrastructure networks means they get exponentially better the more they connect, so it's good to push for more!

Greater Victoria is extremely bike friendly. It helps that you see bikes on the roads wherever you go.

@@titosrevenger City of Victoria is really good and keeps getting better. Saanich is not bad and is getting better too. Unfortunately Oak Bay is still stuck in the 1950’s.

The majority of the Capital Regional District is pretty pro-bike. One of the reasons I moved there from Edmonton, but in its defence, Edmonton is also very pro-bike, and has the longest continually running bike coop in North America, I believe. I think it started in the mid 80s

@@ottarobe Hey now! Oak Bay has those painted lanes on Foul Bay and Fort. :D

​@@ottarobetrue!!

Besides the current infrastructure, I expect the other great hurdle Surrey needs to overcome to improve cycling is the open swaths of farmland flanked by steep hills along the Serpentine River. Despite being a very oft-used stretch to drive over (thanks to businesses in Langley), and having protected bike lanes, the geography keeps it unfriendly to cyclists. I expect the growing popularity of capable e-bikes will help this somewhat, but what I'm most looking forward to is the forthcoming skytrain development which will span right across!

I cycle in those place everyday in Alabama

Yep. A recent study here in Germany found that the "short bike ride" for an e-bike is up to 15 km, in some cases even 30. So "to far to bike to the grocery store" doesn't exist any more - only bike-unfriendly roads.

I am considering to get an ebike too, but I don't think city of Coquitlam/Burnaby will change soon.

It's better than a concept for a while. Here's a program called safety town in the USA. I volunteered one year for it when I was in highschool. But yes, Street knowledge is not knowledge. That's sacred to driver's education. I would. I argue that we don't do enough Street/drivers in children's education.

We do it a bit here in Québec, there's a programme from Vélo Québec called Cycliste averti, but it depends on Foundations funding it.

We have that in Germany

add urban planning to that list. kids should know about developing our cities a lot younger than we currently expose them to, if at all.

We have that in the Netherland. You also do a bicycle examen. All kids go to school per bicycle.

The Goose connecting to Lochside is also amazing in that you can get from downtown to Sidney by bike and it's flat the whole way... nice to have a defunct rail line, which not every city has, but good for them to make use of it and the old E&N line for this purpose. Some places do leave in defunct rail infrastructure.

While I'm all for safe cycling routes, you could argue it a lack of foresight to not plan for reinstated rail lines on the old right-of-ways, and it certainly was a lack of foresight to abandon them in the first place. Safe and connected cycling is great but it's even better when it can connect to high quality rail transit

The Goose is such an awesome path. Especially connecting to Lochside. Biking to the ferry has never been easier. If only the Lower Mainland would put cycling infrastructure on their side

We here in the Netherlands also do not have separated bike lanes everywhere. Also many "bike suggestion lanes" are mostly made. These are red painted lanes with white non-continuing lines next to them. We are used to them and it works okay. In the narrow streets where I come from there are no bike lanes. But where possible, separated bike lanes are made. Here a street view link. You can go through the streets. Take a look maps.app.goo.gl/zBP1phRQBdS4fMFg8?g_st=ac At the other side of the water you see a 4-lane 70 kmh road west of the city and it has separated bike lanes.

Yes, exactly. It's nice to safely get to your destination but lock your bike in Surrey and it's gone in 30 seconds.

One approach is a folding bike, which you can bring with you. Zizzos cost $200-400.

As a Dutch I would say: also look your bike inside where you work. If a bike is stolen here out of someone's house, the insurance asks if you locked your bike. When you park it outside, use you good chain lock. Start putting the chain through the frame, then around a tree or a pole, then through your front wheel and then close the chain/lock it. Now they can not lift it and take it away. Always through the frame and the front wheel. Once when I was still a teenager, during a fair, I parked my Citta Gilera moped next to, 20", to a police station. I had a good time, came back and gone was my moped 🛵. Stolen. I went inside the small police station a made an official report about it. I told my friends about it and we went the next day to another fair ( where you can shoot on targets, go in a big wheel and a gosthouse and children can draw strong to win, and go in collision carts). One of the friends told me he saw my moped. I went to it and indeed it is mine. I stayed at the moped and the friend went to the police station at the end of the fair. Two police came. I told them it is my moped and showed them the insurance papers. They checked the numbers. One went and came back with a big chain siccor. They took my moped to the police station. Everything was checked again and became back my moped. End good, all good.