In his defense, he could not see them. /s
Honestly too stupid to be alive
Did they earn their driver’s license from a lottery?
He must hate people with fit legs?
Jealousy?
You mean people with non-micropenises. Only jealous or fearful people carry that much hate around.
Excuse me, as someone with a small package I would never do this.
They’ve got “pathetic whiny bitch energy” though. Probably complains about woke DEI antifa bike lanes to other dudes who take low angle photos in their trucks with oakleys on.
Hey now, I like my Oakley’s. They’re the only ones that fit my face without gaps.
Tbf tho I don’t post videos of me bitching about falling behind people without privilege.
Excuse me, as someone who whines like a bitch, I would never do this.
They’ve got “grandma who can’t find the lane energy” though. Probably complains about technology to other grandmas who blast shopping shows with bifocals on.
he should be finded for every single of those public infrastructure things he hit for their full replacement value outside of whatever the standard ticket and fine is.
No. He should he fined to upgrade them all to concrete bollards
Not good enough:
- Loss of drivers license permanently
- Vehicle impounded and cubed
- Fined the price to change those from useless plastic floppy bits to the concrete and steel reinforced rails needed to keep people safe from cars.
vehicle cubed and returned to his driveway.
You have 30 minutes to move your car.
You have 10 minutes.
Your car has been impounded.
Your car has been crushed into a cube.
You have 30 minutes to move your cube.If you do not remedy this malparkage within 72 hours, your car will be thrown into the East River at your expense.
- unrelated episode, but also classic
Really wish some of these came with really harsh punishments like you are suggesting. This is an absolute psychopath who will eventually hurt someone.
I’d have a raffle to allow someone to hit the button to cube the vehicle, and use the money from the raffle to pay for more/stronger bike infrastructure.
Send that to the local authorities?
uhh be careful. in many regions it’s illegal to just film other people. even if they’re doing something illegal. be careful.
In the US it’s almost never illegal in public, and this is California.
Tell that shit to flock
Those bollards need to be solid.
Just one of them
The goal should be to protect vulnerable road users. Solid metal or concrete blocks would be better because they would actively prevent cars from entering the bicycle lane.
The goal should be safety. A single solid pole in a line of breakaway poles is spiteful.
I’m 100% on board with being spiteful to carholes. My only note on the suggestion is that hitting the concrete one and disabling your car should be considered sufficient evidence on its own to convict the driver of attempted murder.
A car entering a bike lane by accident is just as deadly as one that enters out of malice. Which is why the bollards should be solid, and visibly so. The dividers should prevent cars from entering.
These bollards are designed to collapse as they did. They are designed to be visible markers, rather than physical barriers. These are bad by design. Lawmakers are more concerned with avoiding airbag deployments than safety.
A single breakaway post that doesn’t break away is not the solution. Though I would never snitch on someone secretly who filled one with concrete overnight.
Chaotic good.
I was thinking they should be connected with a steel cable at the bottom, and a hook inside the plastic shell, so if a car hits them, they grab on and start slowing the car down.
No. Each post should be solid enough to stop, or significantly slow a car on its own. They need to be built to protect vulnerable road users from cars. Slowing the cars gradually does not do that.
Cables under tension can snap back which makes your idea even more dangerous than just a concrete block.
That’s how they are in Europe. Slam into one of those and you basically have to get a new car.
You need to promote it as “anti-terrorist hardening to protect cars from terrorist ramming attacks”. It’s more likely to get support.
Eh, there are genuine situations where you don’t want to stop the vehicle immediately, like say if this trucker came up on the other side and pushed the filming car into the bike line. Having a controlled line that brings the vehicle to a stop is much safer than having concrete and steel barriers that just shred the car and the occupants. Similar cable systems are already installed to stop cars, so the engineering has been done to prevent those dangerous snap-backs.
Those systems are designed to dissipate the forces by crumpling and creating debris that is thrown away from the middle of the road. The crash panels at the start of cable systems and guardrails are designed to launch debris in a colission. Incredibly dangerous for cyclists or pedestrians, which is why they are installed at road edges. They are completely unsuitable to be barriers between different types of traffic.
Highway medians are almost always concrete walls. There is a reason those cable systems are not used between lanes of traffic.
Highway medians are almost always concrete walls
Funny you mention this, because most highway medians are a W profile ditch, or a cable catch system (which is similar to what I described).
I’m referring to urban highways where opposing lanes are right next to each other, like the sort of spacing that you would need for a barrier next to a bicycle lane. Those cable systems are only installed in cases where there is generous clearance for debris, which is not applicable for the roadside bicycle lanes we are discussing.
Admittedly it would be much safer for those in the bike lane if we dug a W profile ditch in pace of the car lanes. For some reason I don’t see that happening.
Yet far more situations where you’d want to stop the car immediately. What’s worse in your scenario, a few people in the car potentially getting injured or killed, or multiple pedestrians and cyclists getting mangled by 2 cars?
Which scenario is more likely? A car having a lane departure event, or a car having a lane departure event at the exact moment the area next to them is packed with cyclists and pedestrians?
Seeing how this truck managed to go for a mile or so in the bike lane without hitting anyone, I’d definitely err on the side of a car going into the bike lane being more probable than a car going into the bike line right next to a whole bunch of cyclists.
If bikers felt better protected, maybe more would bike. In my country something like this would become mass murder. It doesn’t though.
I think they need to be flexible for fire trucks and ambulances. A bike lane can turn into an E lane if designed properly.
It’s funny, by me pickup drivers are usually the most considerate ones to cyclists. Cars with florida plates are usually the worst. I think the reason is that most of the pickups are DOT registered because people use them for work.
I’m pretty sure I’m almost killed by a pickup weekly; definitely haven’t gone over a month without it for quite a while
pickup drivers are usually the most considerate ones
Not in Texas
Maybe California does it differently, but given the number of Hitler Particles in that state, I kinda doubt it
I’m in the rural north east.
this is hilarious actually. where do the posts go? they just seem to disappear. also imagine how much damage that car is gonna take. would be real funny if one of these posts was randomly steel instead of rubber lol.
Sadly seem to be rubber posts. In the Netherlands they are used in some places so emergency vehicles can ignore them and go into a otherwise “blocked off” street
They are very common in the UK - flexible bollards are widespread here to prevent damage to vehicles after the inevitable collisions. Using them to separate cars from bike lanes is also common - and says the quiet part out loud: https://startsafety.uk/collections/flexible-bollards
They went up into that driver’s ass.
wHy Do bIkE lAnEs nEeD To bE pRotEcTeD?
Needs concrete bollards.
Just one at random
needs 5 foot wall, 3 foot thick heavily reinforced concrete walls
They should lose their car and license, and be made to repair all the damage they did. Maybe some community service, too.
My guess is those pop back up when knocked over. Hard to see in the video if they are standing back up after he hits them but i think they do. I agree he should loose his license and be charged with reckless driving.
Having seen people drive over these, they are designed to flop around for this very reason, but usually don’t stand up to anything faster than walking speed unless they’re brand new.
So I’m sure quite a few didn’t pop back up.
Either way, I’d make them pay for the entire row and use the money to make a more permanent barrier (that’ll never happen in the US)
Make them pay to replace them with concrete bollards
They’re designed to be knockable and pop back up to accommodate street sweepers and energy vehicles, but not assholes going full speed
Energy vehicles?
Guessing an autocorrected emergency vehicles.
It’s a shame there’s not the occasional solid steel bar mixed in with them.
Thought about it, and it makes a missle out of a bollard etc that would risk bystanders.
That driver is already a severe risk to literally everyone and everything around it.
uhh rubber does bend normally, yes, but not if you hit it at that speed. the rubber has no time to respond properly, and instead of bending, it tears apart, i think. so no, i don’t think these will stand up again.
Rebuild every single one of those by hand, with concrete and rebar. Lose license permanently . Have to speak every year at high schools about anger management, inadequacy and insecurity, for life.
So they saw the green paint, but not any of the bollard things they crushed or the white lines? WTF?
Take this person’s license away. They’re too fucking blind to be on the road.
I’m not convinced that was accidental.
It absolutely wasn’t
Dodge ram driver doing dodge ram driver shit.
That person should not be allowed to drive anything motorized ever.
I wouldn’t want to be bicycling around that motherfucker, either.
Well that is fine because he will be too lazy and scared to leave his house without a giant truck
