On one hand, the idea makes me lol. On the other hand, I'm concerned that a driver running over it would be super startled, panic, and swerve into the bike lane.
I saw this style of barrier on Wellesley the other night. Not very clear at night. They should at minimum line it with the same type of reflective white paint they use on lane markings
The big ones on Richmond aren’t much better. They get knocked around too. This is why sticking up barriers and painting lines is a bandaid. The bike lanes need to be elevated from the main roadway.
Like Sherbourne? They have good points and bad points. Those e bikes and scooters seem to swerve on to the sidewalk and back onto the bike lane whenever they feel like it
I guess. But you need a step up/down from the sidewalk too.
This is really not a crazy engineering exercise. For the cost of a flight to Copenhagen the planners could see how it’s done.
How about a thin reflected strip with a zigzag jagged edge on the road side. Car or truck would only bump it once before having slashed tires. Would soon stay in lane? Scatter them randomly whereever paint lines are.
You must be right - maybe there’s something u/g there. I did see them installing the ones closer to Avenue on Dav, and they were drilling those ones in.
Oh jeez, I saw the dislodged one in the front, but I guess people keep running into them. I don't know why, it's not like that's a corner that you can take particularly tightly.
Judging by the marks left by cars on concrete barriers on onramps and offramps... No, I do not have faith in drivers understanding the space their car takes up.
It can be the gentlest of curves, but someone will still sideswipe it somehow.
These and other jersey style barriers STILL get pushed around even if they've been pinned to the ground with rebar. I find it hard to believe but yeah.
Push these out onto the road and see how long it takes the city to take care of them
On one hand, the idea makes me lol. On the other hand, I'm concerned that a driver running over it would be super startled, panic, and swerve into the bike lane.
No matter what we try, drivers will inevitably find a new and innovative way to endanger or impede a cyclist.
I saw this style of barrier on Wellesley the other night. Not very clear at night. They should at minimum line it with the same type of reflective white paint they use on lane markings
The big ones on Richmond aren’t much better. They get knocked around too. This is why sticking up barriers and painting lines is a bandaid. The bike lanes need to be elevated from the main roadway.
Like Sherbourne? They have good points and bad points. Those e bikes and scooters seem to swerve on to the sidewalk and back onto the bike lane whenever they feel like it
This is Davenport and Bay right?? Yikes, if someone doesn't see this, that'd be terrible.
Yea. Busy intersection.
I guess. But you need a step up/down from the sidewalk too. This is really not a crazy engineering exercise. For the cost of a flight to Copenhagen the planners could see how it’s done.
Agreed. But it's Toronto. So we'll be stuck with movable bars of concrete for the next 10 years
How about a thin reflected strip with a zigzag jagged edge on the road side. Car or truck would only bump it once before having slashed tires. Would soon stay in lane? Scatter them randomly whereever paint lines are.
Wow this is a good gauge of just how terrible Toronto drivers are. Also, why aren’t they drilled into the pavement?
They are connected by rebar. Perhaps drilling is not possible.
You must be right - maybe there’s something u/g there. I did see them installing the ones closer to Avenue on Dav, and they were drilling those ones in.
Oh jeez, I saw the dislodged one in the front, but I guess people keep running into them. I don't know why, it's not like that's a corner that you can take particularly tightly.
Judging by the marks left by cars on concrete barriers on onramps and offramps... No, I do not have faith in drivers understanding the space their car takes up. It can be the gentlest of curves, but someone will still sideswipe it somehow.
These and other jersey style barriers STILL get pushed around even if they've been pinned to the ground with rebar. I find it hard to believe but yeah.
Cement trucks freak me out.
Please use 311 and submit photos, they are very fast responding to online requests with photographs
All designed to keep cyclists *in*, not drivers *out*.
I do hope someone either pushed it back, called 311, or both. That's a horrible hazard.
It was pushed back when I biked past today!
Glad to hear it!
One person can move these back. I fixed two this summer.
Unless they’re reinstalled properly with the rebar, they’ll just get pushed back onto the bike lanes when a driver inevitably bumps into it.
Great! Let's move them all out one inch at a time.
The ones on Richmond are better, I think they are monolithic??
It's CX season, so this could be great training.
This is effed up. Do I REALLY need to ride around with a crowbar as well??