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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Examples of bad facilities]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>MichaelBluejay wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><p>Darron, I&#039;d count your earlier examples as bad facilities.&#160; I think anyone would.&#160; That was kind of my point, to share facilities in which there&#039;s pretty unanimous agreement that they&#039;re bad.&#160; Your earlier examples aren&#039;t as forehead-slapping bad as the others, but bad is bad.&#160; There are plenty of *missing* facilities, but what&#039;s really sad is when a municipality bothers puts one in and they arguably make things even worse.</p></div></blockquote></div><p>I just didn&#039;t want to go down the rabbit hole of &quot;why would you just not build the last XX yards to connect two bike path?&quot; examples because I&#039;m not sure how much room your hosting service allocates this site!</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jan 2018 13:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Darron, I&#039;d count your earlier examples as bad facilities.&#160; I think anyone would.&#160; That was kind of my point, to share facilities in which there&#039;s pretty unanimous agreement that they&#039;re bad.&#160; Your earlier examples aren&#039;t as forehead-slapping bad as the others, but bad is bad.&#160; There are plenty of *missing* facilities, but what&#039;s really sad is when a municipality bothers puts one in and they arguably make things even worse.</p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 23:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>&quot;never mind the bollards&quot; indeed.&#160; Thanks, Darron.&#160; Here&#039;s another:&#160; <a href="http://john-s-allen.com/blog/?p=7349" rel="ugc">http://john-s-allen.com/blog/?p=7349</a></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jack)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Examples of bad facilities]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Sorry I didn&#039;t catch the spirit of the post.&#160; I&#039;ll try and redeem myself.&#160; How about a narrow lanes or lanes that go right into parked cars?<br /><span class="postimg"><img src="https://3kpnuxym9k04c8ilz2quku1czd-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/bad_bikelanes_london1.jpg" alt="bad_bikelanes_london1.jpg" /></span></p><p>Here is a good list from the UK:<br /><a href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/never-mind-bollards-12-absolute-5514253" rel="ugc">https://www.mirror.co.uk/usvsth3m/never … te-5514253</a></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Darron)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 13:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Those are some crazy examples!&#160; Thanks for sharing.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (MichaelBluejay)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2018 00:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://bicycleaustin.info/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6850#p6850</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Well, try to help . . . just pointing out that the usual soft complaint about perfectly normal paths wasn&#039;t really your idea behind this thread.&#160; More like--<br /> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/badbikelanes?f=images&amp;vertical=default&amp;src=hash" rel="ugc">https://twitter.com/hashtag/badbikelane … t&amp;src=hash</a>&#160; which has some real gems.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jack)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2018 23:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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			<link>https://bicycleaustin.info/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6846#p6846</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, what I was trying to do in my initial post was specifically to pre-empt Jack from complaining about off-street facilities in general.&#160; Not that it worked.</p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (MichaelBluejay)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<div class="quotebox"><cite>Darron wrote:</cite><blockquote><div><p>There is a nice 10ft wide shared use path long Park Street in Cedar Park.<br />For about the first .75 miles it flows nicely along the street with strait through cross street intersections like this:<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5139578,-97.8036286,68m/data=!3m1!1e3" rel="ugc">https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5139578 … a=!3m1!1e3</a>&#160; [and]<br /><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5144998,-97.8003557,73m/data=!3m1!1e3" rel="ugc">https://www.google.com/maps/@30.5144998 … a=!3m1!1e3</a></p><p>.</p></div></blockquote></div><p>It would be worth comparing those paths to the ones in these illustrations, annotated with references to the results of studies showing how much safer it is safer to ride in the street to begin with.&#160; </p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeway_safety#/media/File:Cycle_path_collision_risks.jpg" rel="ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeway_s … _risks.jpg</a>&#160; &#160; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeway_safety#/media/File:Cyclist_Accident_Risk_Lund.svg" rel="ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeway_s … k_Lund.svg</a>&#160; </p><p>It&#039;s quite possible that the one forcing cyclists to turn before crossing safer than the straight one.</p><p>I understood that MBJ was hoping that this thread would be about outrageous examples, not just the usual bad examples.&#160; More along the lines of this?:&#160; <a href="http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/" rel="ugc">http://wcc.crankfoot.xyz/facility-of-the-month/</a></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Jack)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 23:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Examples of bad facilities]]></title>
			<link>https://bicycleaustin.info/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=6843#p6843</link>
			<description><![CDATA[<p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://d3m2ca683sarz5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/04085841/Safety-First-20340.jpg" alt="Safety-First-20340.jpg" /></span></p><p><a href="http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/careless-workers/19/" rel="ugc">http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertai … orkers/19/</a></p>]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (MichaelBluejay)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p>Let&#039;s have a thread about unquestionably bad facilities (not facilities in which there&#039;s some reasonable debate about whether it&#039;s good or not).</p><p>I&#039;ll start off with this one, though it&#039;s from a clickbait website which doesn&#039;t say where the facility is, or whether it&#039;s really true and not a Photoshop effort.</p><p><span class="postimg"><img src="http://d3m2ca683sarz5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/04085801/tumblr_n31qavlxLU1rgzhe0o1_500.jpg" alt="tumblr_n31qavlxLU1rgzhe0o1_500.jpg" /></span></p><p><a href="http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertainment/careless-workers/12/" rel="ugc">http://www.ninjajournalist.com/entertai … orkers/12/</a></p>]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 22:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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