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Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by AlexandrB on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @12:49PM (#50369061)
This is very geography/climate dependent though. There are conditions where most people would not bike regardless of how high quality the bike network is.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by BobaFloutist on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:02PM (#50369226)
Are these conditions that typically can't be found in the Netherlands?

I guess heavy snow isn't too common there, maybe if we plowed the bike paths? Ok, now I'm getting distracted imagining a bike-path-plow, it would presumably be mounted on a powered bike of some sort, or maybe on those little parking enforcement trikes.

Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by alexanderchr on Thursday November 05, 2026 @12:44AM (#50375636)
In Scandinavia they have an army of tiny tractors for this purpose:

https://cykelmagasinet.se/facit-finns-nu-sopsaltade-cykelvag...

Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by BobaFloutist on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:47AM (#50381342)
Adorable!
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by crote on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:27AM (#50376626)
Bidirectional dedicated bike paths are usually at least car-sized. They will fit a regular plow just fine. Monodirectional bike lanes usually lack separation from the rest of the road, so they get plowed for free as a side-effect of plowing the car lane.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by hutattedonmyarm on Thursday November 05, 2026 @06:33AM (#50377923)
In the city where I live (which is _usually_ pretty bike friendly) the plow moves the snow from the car lanes onto the bike lanes a lot of the time :/
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by esposm03 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:10PM (#50369342)
The effect is a lot less pronounced that you might expect. See, for example, this video talking about Oulu, Finland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by deadbunny on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @04:49PM (#50372036)
Buy a coat and a pair of gloves. You're not made of sugar.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast... by asdff on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:05AM (#50377351)
So what? On nice days you get a safer way to bike. Why are people in favor of more risk of death to others?