Comment on California is debating whether or not to remove the bike lane on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. During the public hearing, a politician was driving his car

• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  tombutt.com/richmond-san-rafael-bridge-bike-path-…

  abc7news.com/post/…/17466859/

  kqed.org/…/will-the-richmond-san-rafael-bridge-bi…

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  • sukhmel@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How is it that 68 cyclists are 5 cars?

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  • fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you want to talk bigger picture… they built a pedestrian/bike lane with zero access/amenities at either end (unlike the Bay Bridge). No staging area to load/unload your bike, no parking, no bathrooms, no water fountains. Good luck finding all-day parking on city streets in Pt. Richmond or… San Quentin.

    Here are the directions: marinbike.org/…/getting-to-from-the-r-sr-bridge-p…

    Once approaching/getting off the bridge, if commuting by bike, there is no direct connection to the Bay Trail. So anyone living in Marin and wanting to commute to, say, Berkeley or El Cerrito so they can get on BART (or even the Richmond Ferry) has to risk going through heavily industrial areas or dicey parts of Richmond. On the Marin side to/from Larkspur Landing, you had to ride unprotected on the shoulder of the freeway!

    Only way to use it for commuters on either end would be to park and ride, but again, no parking and ride facilities. And there’s any wonder more people don’t use it? There’s wide open space at either end of the bridge to build staging areas, especially on the Richmond side right near the Toll Plaza, but nobody wants to make it easy. It’s such a gauntlet I’m amazed that many people use it.

    The solution to traffic congestion is to make public transit and alternate forms of transportation more cost-effective, functional, and convenient. That includes offering easy transition/transfer points. It isn’t to open more driving lanes. They’ve known this since the days of Robert Moses in NYC, but keep doing it.

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  • ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    MTC data has different numbers: reports.mysidewalk.com/3374a0ca74

    Regardless, adding a lane won’t work. The bottleneck is the 101, so you just get extra lanes to stand still in. And the toll gate as well.

    The lane was already there btw, but it was an emergency pullover lane. It didn’t cost a lot of carbon to turn it into a bike lane.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I am thankful for the article links, but how many edits are you at?

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I live there.

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  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Opinions don’t count.

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    • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You reject first hand experience because it conflicts with your political biases.

      Please tell me o wise traveler, how us Bay Area residents should convert full freeway lanes into unused bike lanes.

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      • HikingVet@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        No I reject it because sounds like every other time I’ve heard push back on bike lanes. My ciry is currently going through a similar fight and I have hear your argument several times with no backing information.

        Your comment doesn’t pass the smell test.

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