More developments in the bicycle lanes

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Perhaps a few of you remember a couple of years ago, when I posted about an unwitting motorist getting stuck in the bike lane on Williams while trying to turn right, and getting screamed at by a bicyclist who refused to move when the light turned green, based on some principle of which apparently only he (and MMIX, who proceeded to inform me that I was wrong about the whole incident based entirely on looking at the street on Google Earth) were aware?

Well, in the ongoing saga of bike lane development here in Portland, the city has resolved that issue by simply moving the bike lane to the LEFT side of the street, and making it a combined bike/turn lane.

Which of course, is perfectly safe and makes all the sense in the world [/sarcasm].

It has certainly gone some way toward cutting down on bike traffic on Williams and Vancouver, by virtue of making those former bicycle thoroughfares absolutely fucking terrifying.

[MMIX]

Lol, No. What I actually said was that the idiot cyclist was probably bitching to all his on-line connections about this woman who bawled him out on a junction when he was patently in the right. I then had a fun evening walking around the junction on google earth because i'd never really tried it before, but if you prefer your version, no harm no foul.



I tried to pm this but apparently you still have me on ignore

ETA Which just goes to prove that I really am the idiot I was always told I was.

for those of you watching in black and white Spurs are in the all-yellow strip

[Doktor Howl]

She won't see you here, either, MMIX.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

She won't see you here, either, MMIX.

Am I wrong about the place I live again?

Guess it'll have to remain a mystery.

[MMIX]

She won't see you here, either, MMIX.

hence my edit

[Doktor Howl]

Nigel, it occurs to me that people can have any number of separate and conflicting notions about Portland, and ALL of them are WRONG.

Because your city is WRONG.  It's bad.  It has not had its scheduled maintenance, and Resumption of Normal Service is not even up for discussion.  Any belief you have about your city is based on information that changes constantly, as more and more things break down.

That being said, outsiders are obviously even MORE wrong, on account of observing Portland changes it...And Portland changes the OBSERVER.  If you gaze too long into the microbrewery, it gazes back and then you're drinking shit American beer and calling it good.

Also, you're Nigel, so you have to be wrong, just as I must be a jerk and Cain must be Macheavellan.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Nigel, it occurs to me that people can have any number of separate and conflicting notions about Portland, and ALL of them are WRONG.

Because your city is WRONG.  It's bad.  It has not had its scheduled maintenance, and Resumption of Normal Service is not even up for discussion.  Any belief you have about your city is based on information that changes constantly, as more and more things break down.

That being said, outsiders are obviously even MORE wrong, on account of observing Portland changes it...And Portland changes the OBSERVER.  If you gaze too long into the microbrewery, it gazes back and then you're drinking shit American beer and calling it good.

Also, you're Nigel, so you have to be wrong, just as I must be a jerk and Cain must be Macheavellan.

I'm the wrong kind of people, all rolled into one.

But for the love of all that's wrong, I just hope I can make it to South Water today without the streetcar derailing or the power going out. For once.

[Doktor Howl]

Nigel, it occurs to me that people can have any number of separate and conflicting notions about Portland, and ALL of them are WRONG.

Because your city is WRONG.  It's bad.  It has not had its scheduled maintenance, and Resumption of Normal Service is not even up for discussion.  Any belief you have about your city is based on information that changes constantly, as more and more things break down.

That being said, outsiders are obviously even MORE wrong, on account of observing Portland changes it...And Portland changes the OBSERVER.  If you gaze too long into the microbrewery, it gazes back and then you're drinking shit American beer and calling it good.

Also, you're Nigel, so you have to be wrong, just as I must be a jerk and Cain must be Macheavellan.

I'm the wrong kind of people, all rolled into one.

But for the love of all that's wrong, I just hope I can make it to South Water today without the streetcar derailing or the power going out. For once.

Philip K Dick novels look like fucking Horatio Alger, after Portland.