San Francisco restaurant owner goes on 30-day hunger strike over new bike lane

So I hang out in this neighborhood/street often, talked to a bunch of people about it, and this is a rare situation where literally everybody hates this new center of the road bike lane

Bicyclists hate it because a bike lane in the middle of the road is obviously dangerous af both riding straight and turning at intersections and also annoying to get off of

Business owners hate it because it's lowered traffic due to less parking spots and increased difficulty in getting off the road onto the sidewalks for both cyclists and drivers

Drivers hate it because they can't u-turn or overtake anymore and cyclists always have to cross them at intersections

The people who made this decision have provided 0 evidence that this design is in any way better than just standard bike lanes beside the curbs and quite a few people have been hit because of this design

- Elon can fix it. Someone DM him.
I was gonna say that the description of an increase in accidents and ten businesses closing seems at odds with what bike lanes and more pedestrian friendly streets usually provide, so it must have been something kinda fucky going on.
I'm sure some algorithm told the bazingas this was the best place for the bike lane
This is definitely being done as badly as possible as a psyop by car-corps to convince Americans that bike lanes are bad and will destroy your town.
What a terrible design. I'm now going on a 30 day eating binge next to this guy until San Francisco implements a better bike lane.
Yes. Bike lanes can be misplaced and/or done horribly. But middle of the road bike lanes are universally awful.
Tumlin was cooking with this one. It's so fucking bad.

You do not have the constitutional right to a profitable business and you don't get to reverse a vote by whining (and then probably just eating as much as he wants when nobody is looking)

This poor kulak will have to see increased foot traffic to his low-cost restaurant. The entire reason I don't go to my local equivalents of this place is that the biking infrastructure is terrible and a falafel plate isn't worth driving a congested road with hazardous parking for. I avoid our downtown core largely because no amount of increased parking stems the increased flow of car traffic looking for a spot, while a lack of bike lanes which are also opposed by our kulaks means I'm not risking biking there. The buses are stuck on the congested roads and we can't rebuild the lightrail because they tore it out for the street parking there isn't enough of.

There are many valid, noble causes to go on a hunger strike for, and you chose this?

If you're going to do an unhinged small business tyrant protest, at least have the decency to make a killdozer, gosh.

starve bitch

Reminder:

I’ve read every study and report I could find that looked specifically at the economics of bike lanes since 1984 — 32 research articles, to be exact. The results show that making streets friendlier for bikes — and sidewalks friendlier for pedestrians — is actually good for business. The rise of “complete streets” and “road diets,” as urban planners call them, has been a huge boon to businesses in cities.

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This is an experimental bike lane in the center of the road that is complete dogshit
More here: https://hexbear.net/comment/4828416
- Yeah, ok, that's just a ridiculous design. It's like it's designed to be able to say at the end of the experiment that 'adding bike lanes doesn't work'.
- Thanks for the context. I've only ever been a pedestrian in that area and I didn't know about the increase in collisions.
This seems pretty intuitive. People driving by your place aren't going to look into your window or give a quick read of your menu or special sign, they're driving by. Also if you've got foot traffic and sell food you can figure out something to have pre-made that people who want a quick bite going by can grab and that alone can keep the lights on in a place.

This is definitely cuz he just lost his favorite parking spot in front of work

Who the hell drives to the mission district anyway? Iirc there's a BART station and a bunch of MUNI stops as well.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Eiad's ongoing insurance fraud investigation. The loss of business is caused by the bicycles! Kindly ignore me trying to burn the building down.

petit bourgeois getting more petit

What a maroon.

Starve lol

boomers are fucking insane about bike lanes. in my city reddits and facebook groups, they talk about bike lanes like they're the bane of their fuckin existence.