This is the time of year that really makes me angry at the streetcar tracks. A whopping seventy percent of Portland cyclists crash on the tracks at some point and right now, when people are getting on bikes for the first time in a long time, is when arm casts and wrist-braces start popping up more frequently.
There’s a couple partial fixes to this deepening frenemy stalemate (like putting streetcar tracks on the left side of streets and marking ways to cross the tracks safely) but a couple German designers modified a bike to ride IN the tracks.
Portland Streetcar Training WheelsTM, anyone?
SARAH POSTING ABOUT BIKES? NEVER WOULD HAVE GUESSED!
We should get a larger fleet of whambulances!
Really only a good idea to ride track-adapted vehicles on disused tracks.
Because it’s just too hard to simply avoid the streets that have tracks.
Or we could stop building streetcars for tens of millions of dollars and just use buses to do literally the exact same thing.
DON’T RIDE YOUR DAMN BIKE ON THE TRACKS! YOU CAN FALL AND GET TEH STUPID!
It isn’t like the tracks suddenly pop up and are like “oh, HAI! I’m here to crash you!”
This gives me further confirmation that we will never cure cyclists. However, if we just remove all the warning labels then things may sort out accordingly.
They’re no pleasure to drive on either, but the plight of the 95 percent of Portlanders who use a car as their primary means of transportation doesn’t garner much sympathy around these parts.
You and Jonathan Maus need to have some protest on Lovejoy about the tragedy of streetcar/max tracks.
(I’ll have a sign pointing to Hoyt/Overton for those that aren’t complete fucking idiots.)