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San Francisco campaigners use cones to create guerrilla bike lanes after cyclists killed

Cyclists impatient with slow progress when it comes to planned safety improvements
by Alex Bowden
Fri, Aug 12, 2016 10:36
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Cyclists in San Francisco have been creating mock-protected bike lines with cones. Their efforts come after two cyclists were killed in separate hit-and-run incidents on the same night in June.

SFist.com reports that the San Francisco Transformation Agency (SFMTrA) has taken it upon itself to use cones to influence traffic.

Here’s an example.

And here’s another.

 

 

An anonymous member of SFMTrA said: “There’s a psychological effect of the orange cone on the automobile driver, and we wanted to bring that to the street. We want the city to have more urgency protecting bikers and pedestrians in San Francisco.”

San Francisco is aiming to eliminate traffic deaths by 2024, but while the Mayor's office recently unveiled 57 high-priority projects as part of its plans, it seems many of those included were simply repurposed existing projects which had already been delayed.

As a spokesman for local campaigners Bike Coalition said: "It's important to realise that, while this is a substantial commitment by City leaders, nothing has changed on the ground yet."

SFMTrA’s efforts echo a recent storyline in Australian soap opera Neighbours in which one of the characters, Karl Kennedy, painted his own bike lanes and broadcasted this to social media following a hit-and-run involving a child cyclist.

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Alex Bowden

Alex has written for more cricket publications than the rest of the road.cc team combined. Despite the apparent evidence of this picture, he doesn't especially like cake.

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tritecommentbot | 8 years ago
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Approved.

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tritecommentbot | 8 years ago
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Approved.

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STiG911 | 8 years ago
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Have to say, their painted cyclist is quite the work of art. Skills.

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the little onion | 8 years ago
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The Dutch "kindermoord" campaign, which kickstarted the rise of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands, included guerilla painting of cycle lanes. Let's see if this would work in the UK.

 

(just popping out the local DIY shop)

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Matt_S replied to the little onion | 8 years ago
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the little onion wrote:

Let's see if this would work in the UK.

 

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

You'd be run over 10 times by tipper trucks just while painting the bloody lines.

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brooksby replied to the little onion | 8 years ago
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the little onion wrote:

The Dutch "kindermoord" campaign, which kickstarted the rise of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands, included guerilla painting of cycle lanes. Let's see if this would work in the UK.

(just popping out the local DIY shop)

I've often wondered about guerilla signage on some of the side roads which come across a cycle path I use regularly.

Nice wide, shiny new cycle path, going down a hill alongside a main road.  Several side roads.  The side roads have hedges/walls/etc so have rubbish visibility, but in their wisdom the council put give-way markings on the cycle path.  Which means that cars coming out are really not looking for cyclists, but come out already looking at the traffic on the main road.

I think some nice give-way markings on the side road, a few feet back from the junction, might help things a great deal...

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Yorkshire wallet replied to the little onion | 8 years ago
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the little onion wrote:

The Dutch "kindermoord" campaign, which kickstarted the rise of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands, included guerilla painting of cycle lanes. Let's see if this would work in the UK.

 

(just popping out the local DIY shop)

Sadly the reality is you'd end up on front of the magistrates and get fined more than £80.

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Housecathst replied to Yorkshire wallet | 8 years ago
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Yorkshire wallet wrote:
the little onion wrote:

The Dutch "kindermoord" campaign, which kickstarted the rise of cycling infrastructure in the Netherlands, included guerilla painting of cycle lanes. Let's see if this would work in the UK.

 

(just popping out the local DIY shop)

Sadly the reality is you'd end up on front of the magistrates and get fined more than £80.

woow you can kill a couple of cyclist for that much! 

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