To be honest, I find Google Maps pretty poor for cycling even in Australia. For some of the same reasons they’re bad in the Netherlands. A high tendency to send you on busier roads (though here that means actually dangerous, rather than just a bit uncomfortable and noisy), and not really understanding the difference between an on-road bike lane, a dedicated bike path, and a quieter bike-friendly street.
My go-to is Ride With GPS. It gives you the ability to do manual routing if you want it, and frankly I usually do use that, but its defaults are a lot better than Google.
Yeah I’ve used them as well and the automatic routing is not so good. I can put 2 points 3 feet from each other and it will route them around a 2 mile detour randomly.
I can put 2 points 3 feet from each other and it will route them around a 2 mile detour randomly
I had that happen to me with Google Maps walking directions recently. I worked out pretty confidently that the reason was because Google thought it was a one-way path, because the detour would stop happening if I swapped the start and end locations.
Cyclists travel at speeds they can easily slow down or stop if some blind person walks into the lane, sighted people do it all the time anyway. The typical long sight lines give plenty of time for a cyclist to spot someone sporting a red and white cane.
“We don’t have any evidence at this time that there is an injury collision problem."
World’s dumbest province elects the world’s dumbest leader who enacts the world’s dumbest traffic policies…
Also, this is happening in the city that elected a crackhead mayor, who was the brother of the guy who is now pushing through these crackhead bike lane laws
I lived in Busan at the time this project was done, and visited Seoul only a few weeks after it opened. I didn’t know anything about urbanism at the time, I just knew it was such an incredibly nice place to be.
Note: this is copy/pasted from my comment on the Nebula version. Time codes might be slightly off.
The stock clip used at 3:20 involving a driver unabashedly on their phone is brilliant.
The 5:45 clip of a dude in a bigfoot costume cycling through Tokyo was unexpected.
6:00 the self-shout-out had me laugh out loud.
The idea of lowering local street speed limits not actually making your trip take much longer is so true. Brisbane-based cycling safety advocate Chris Cox has a video where he gives a demonstration. He drives the same route twice, once sticking to 30 km/h on the local streets, and once trying his best to get up to the speed limit of 50 km/h on those streets. (Driving to the predominantly 60 km/h speed limit on arterial roads.) The video on the whole is actually incredibly similar to this one, down to the safety/speed curve, the FOV comparisons, and the dismissal of the ridiculous arguments against 30 km/h. Because yeah, Jason’s words in the conclusion to this video are so right: the data is really, really, really clear here; at some point we have to realise that anybody fighting against lower speed limits within cities is either wilfully ignorant or they’re a selfish arsehole who values their convenience more than other people’s safety. But here’s a timestamped link to the bit of Chris’s video where he starts his experiment. It took a whopping 9 extra seconds. 9 seconds, on a 10 minute journey.
The UK also has many examples of terrible patchwork asphalt, where parts have been patched multiple times but the entire surface doesn’t appear to have been repaved in decades.
To ensure compatibility, you said you had a local bike shop… you should probably go there and get your brakes swapped with whatever you’re excited for, that they can order in.
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