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Another Cycling Causes Pollution Story
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"We don't want to remove it fully, just in the morning commute."
#Wondering how they think the bridge length of concrete bollards will be moved and returned for two hours each morning#
Driver logic: "I hate sitting in this queue of cars! There is a perfectly good bike lane right there! Let me use it!"
Logical logic: "Get on a bike and use the bike lane."
Government logic: "Bike lane has to go. We should also widen the bridge for more cars."
Outcome - you now have no choice other than to endure the gridlock.
Shurely "Outcome - two tribes, Mad Max on one side, Premium Rush / John Forester on the other".
"if you don't give us what we want, the pollution we make will get worse"
"And even if you do give us what we want then the pollution will still get worse" (because more vehicles will use the bridge).
Of course, the last sentence in the article is the key one.
For those who just couldn't be @rsed
(SPOILER ALERT!)
But the lane isn't closed to traffic. It's closed to motor vehicles.