Who did he sue? The bollard?
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The people that were responsible for not having the bollard there at a certain time. Something like that. One morning they forgot and he blew through at speed and bang.
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There’s a bike path on a shiny new INTERSTATE bridge between Brooklyn and Queens in NYC. Leading up to the bridge are all manner of over and underpasses expediting the path for vehicles. What first pissed me off about the way they built the bike path is that rather than have vehicles kind of go the long way around, the planners did the easy/obvious thing and built a pedestrian/bike bridge over one of the ramps for the bridge. The second and more consistent pisser is that the bridge has the most uneven, dangerous riding surface.
I pray that it is some ADA thing and not just malicious intent but the bridge has 2 or 3 sidewalk tiles at grade, then a level sidewalk tile, then 2-3 more at grade, etc… This pattern repeats itself 6 or 7 times until you are on the ped/bike overpass. AND THEN on one side this is combined with a sharp 180 degree spiral, so you’re going over these changes in grade while turning, with your face feet away from a metal railing ready to take your teeth if you lose your front wheel, which I’m certain people have done.
It is goddamn terrible. I assume they did this to “slow down those dangerous bikers.” I’m imagining the shitstorm that would occur if planners did something similar to “slow down those dangerous cars.”
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Worse than the lead in to the GWB? That thing is stoopid
GWB is so bad, but this is NEW. They could have just been nice. The fact that there is a path at all is nice, even though it dumps you out here on the Queens side:
It certainly could be a lot worse, but you can tell that the people calling the shots about these things give zero shits about people outside of automobiles.
Oh wow that’s shit
It’s definitely possible, but I suspect that it’s designed by someone who doesn’t ride a bike and didn’t bother doing any research into how the path would be used.
Remember when they put in the new Williamsburg Bridge bike path with raised expansion joint plates?
https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/pr2005/pr05_66.shtml
When cyclists complained, DOT first claimed that there was no other way to cover the joints. Then cyclists complained more (and a few people crashed) and it turned out there was a simple solution.
Oh hey guess what the whole Brooklyn side of this path has. Forgot about that.
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Oh no. Seriously?
That’s an ADA thing, gotta have places to stop and rest. Max is 30" of rise on any given run, then you need a landing before the next run starts.
Edit: The spiral thing is even trickier. Any curved slope is a compound curve where there’s both the slope in the direction of travel and also a cross slope. On a tight enough spiral this means a 4-wheeled chair might have one wheel off the ground or with much less friction, or the chair may rock. On a very large arc it’s within the standards tolerance, but for tighter stuff needs to be broken up more.
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Dang. How’d that happen???
JRA, had an ebike on the tray and it failed.
To be fair, it’s had some cracks and a lot of sun damage over many many years of faithful service. New parts have been ordered.
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Was supposed to be a ‘store this for me while I work abroad’ deal for 3 months, then COVID hit and he’s been stuck for over a year.
that was quick
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Impressive!
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what’s even more impressive is that it rides no-handed in a straight line
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This bike is crashing and uncrashing like it’s in Tenet!
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