Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by gobdovan on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:54PM
(#50370648)
Of course it's illegal, just pointing out that in SF authorities accepted and formalised an intervention, while in other parts of the world there's a real threat of criminal proceedings, and not for modifying traffic infrastructure significantly, but for FILLING A POTHOLE.
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Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by lazide on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:10PM
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Did you not see the ‘do not be caught while doing it’ part?
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by gobdovan on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:37PM
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Besides completely missing the fact that I'm pointing out what happens if you get caught, how does "just don't get caught" not apply equally to something like murder?
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by lazide on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @07:32PM
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Depends on if eventually everyone would want the person you murdered murdered or not, eh?
Nice slippery slope, btw.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by cowlevel on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @08:09PM
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Murder makes the world worse, but guerilla road painting done right makes it better. So the advice for road painting is "do it right and don't get caught" while the advice for murder is instead "don't do it"
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by ReaLNero on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:32PM
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Seems like what’s different is that in Romania, the administration views it as an insult. In the US, it’s viewed as a political issue (comfort of cyclists vs drovers).
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by gobdovan on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @03:45PM
(#50371241)
You're onto something. Of course, the cases I linked were pretty different and there's a mix of institutional rigidity in there, but that's how I'd interpret the Romanian attitude as well.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by wahern on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @05:42PM
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Other interventions haven't been met so kindly. For example, last year after California passed a state-wide law banning street parking within 15 feet of an intersection (to improve visibility of pedestrians), some people tried to paint curbs (red curbs mark prohibited parking), frustrated the city was acting too slowly to repaint curbs everywhere. I don't remember if they were ever caught, but presumably they would have received a fine as it caused alot of headaches--it cast doubt on the validity of many parking fines issued after the law took effect as the parking enforcers couldn't know what had been officially repainted, yet.
As for the guerilla bike lane on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park, that entire 1-mile section of JFK was later closed off to cars entirely. It required a city-wide ballot initiative, IIRC, and was very contentious. But the city government was in favor of it, which may have something to do with why they were so accommodating earlier with the bike lane.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by tverbeure on Thursday November 05, 2026 @03:13AM
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> It required a city-wide ballot initiative, IIRC, and was very contentious.
It's still very contentious and was on the ballot again yesterday to undo the previous ballot measure and make it available to car again. The proposal to undo was defeated.
Re:Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrast...
by WesternWind on Thursday November 05, 2026 @08:14AM
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The ballot measure was about a different road actually.