Thursday 30 September 2010

Bike box batty

Proving once again that they hate cars and want to drive businesses entirely out of the city, Seattle opens the first of its "bike boxes", which make it impossible to go through an intersection without ploughing over a squad of cyclists.

This is the reason why I am so glad that I live far away with a range of foothills between me and the lunacy.

The locals don't seem too impressed.

Update: They really aren't impressed

2 comments:

Chris Lopes said...

I live in Colorado Springs, home of the US Olympic Training Center, so we have a lot of cyclists on the roads here. The thing is, bike riders here are required to a) keep an eye on the traffic like everyone else, or b) take their chances. In the ten years I've lived here, I can't remember bike accidents being a major concern. Perhaps our cyclists are smarter than yours.

David said...

Ours have the intelligence of some of the more backward varieties of cabbage and the courtesy of a bus ticket inspector with a secret past.