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[-] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 41 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's why we call those type of "bike lanes" a murder strip.

Have them where I live too.

31°57'30"S 115°54'16"E

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All around Vic, too. They generally don't even put in a bike lane, just say "use the emergency lane". Here's a sequence of images for one on the freeway in to Melbourne from Ballarat, starting from the onramp:

Onramp with sign declaring bicycles permitted on this freeway

Further along the onramp, sign saying to form 1 lane

also on the onramp, yellow diamond sign with bicycle symbol

sign beside the now-merging lane directing cyclists to ride on the shoulder

sign at the end of the merge, 110 speed limit.

This whole stretch of freeway is 110 km/h (70mph). There are skid marks where vehicles have bailed out of a failing 110km/h merge.

The shoulder is the emergency lane. It's where drivers pull over into if there's an unavoidable hazard ahead or their brakes are failing or something.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There used to be a sign "helping" cyclists already on the freeway by telling them "cross here with care":

sign directing cyclists on the freeway to cross the merging lane at a slightly safer location

But it was obliterated by a vehicle:

same sign, obliterated by a vehicle

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I was looking to find the mangled remains of a cycle embedded in the turf just off the side of one of those images.

[-] kernelle@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Holy shit lmao

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I got "Invalid Dynamic Link" on your link.

[-] Longmactoppedup@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago

Same. Not sure what happened there. Have replaced with it's lat long.

[-] randomivysaur@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

4PWQ2WR3+MQ here's a plus code for ye (apparently Google's open-source alternative coordinate thing and their solution to unaddressed areas)

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