Traffic in KCMO has been an array of scooter, bikes and rideshare garbage which has served to endanger locals overall. Here's one example out of many of regarding screwed up implementation of municipal schemes. Read more:
Citizens concerned over Armour Blvd blind spots
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Some people who live on Armour Boulevard say the parked cars along the new bike lanes are creating dangerous blind spots for traffic. "But now that the bike lanes have come out, it's narrowed how much time you have to see," Rae Petersen, a resident said.
Community safety be damned! Bike lanes will be so awesome because we say so!!!
ReplyDeleteBecause gopherkc says so!
ReplyDeleteOnce a rider is killed by a stray bullet, they’ll stop riding in the area.
ReplyDeleteI can’t stand these snobby bicyclists. They are literally automobile probibitionists.
ReplyDeleteHey Tony, what does rideshare have to do with any of this? I am sure you took a Uber from your moms basement to the Gay Bar more than once!!! In fact you should try and take your blog on the road and drive for Uber/Lyft and then possibley you can grow and get your own place.
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ReplyDeleteIt's not just the residents on Armour who are having trouble. You can't pull out from any of the side streets onto Armour without easing into the middle of the street first, and hope you don't get hit.
This was a complete joke to put these bike lanes in, and not only the bike lanes, but it's a protected bike lane, how stupid is that? The city of KC has lowered the Hyde Park property value with bike lanes and those high rise buildings that are going in at Armour and Troost. Those houses sold for huge amounts of money during the frenzy of 2016 and now those who bought then and want out can't even break even.
We call them Bike Nazis because of the way they act on the road. I guess they are hoping for no cars on the road. Dream on.....
ReplyDeleteIt's only fucking paint on the pavement. Just try it a different way. The normal way. With the bike lane next to the traffic lane. That way i can cross Armour without sticking my nose out in traffic.
ReplyDelete( I do this several times a week on my bike. No, I'm not a bike nazi. Yes, I ride a bike daily.)
"Eric Bunch, policy director at BikeWalkKC and who lives in the area said this isn't a new problem.
ReplyDelete"Don't blame the bike lane for this because the bike lane doesn't create a visual distraction or visual obstruction—it's the parked cars," Bunch said."
OMGosh He is clueless.
Due to installing the bike lane near the curb, it has created the challenge for drivers to approach the intersections with the parked cars obstructing the view of oncoming traffic from either direction.
I have a friend who lives on west Armour Blvd at the Del Monte apartments and she has heard numerous car crashes outside her building.
8:12 you're correct
Add a trolley track through there and we’ll have us a regular Piccadilly Circus. Momentum!
ReplyDeleteWhole lanes created for a mode of transportation that is used by, at best .5% of the population 8 months of the year maybe. Bicyclists reprinted the race card and added two zeros, what a crock of crap.
ReplyDeleteTo me from looking at that pictures I can see many issues with how that area is marked.
ReplyDeleteWhen I'm my Schwinn Space Commander the busiest intersections freeze, a lane opens ala Moses & the Red Sea. I am bullet-proof, you dirty bastards.
ReplyDeleteDon’t worry, the fair weather riders won’t be out much longer
ReplyDeleteLots of autos but where are the bikes??
ReplyDeleteThe only thing everyone in the comments section of this blog can agree upon is that bicycle lanes are fucking retarded and those who advocate for them need to be rounded up and put in camps
ReplyDeleteBike, scooter, running, walking and trains, what's a poor car to do ?
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