Matt Carphree
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Matt Carphree
@MattyCiii
protected bike lanes make cities safer for drivers, people walking, and people on bikes!
Germany 🇩🇪 Katılım Mayıs 2011
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@CostcoSwizzle @DWBergstrom @Boenau “I never said it was impossible, I said it was unpleasant.”
As if driving in the rain does not suck ass. Gridlock, terrible drivers swerving/blocking/honking, etc.
In hard rains I’m asked “you biked in this‽?”
I reply “you 𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙚 in this‽?!?”
They instantly understand
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Bike + Train
It's nice to have options for getting around without a car.
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@but_cyclists I read a summary of a study that concluded: in congested areas, a 1% increase in traffic will increase delay by 18%.
This is why free-flowing traffic can come to a standstill with no observable cause.
Bikes are a minority that save drivers from disastrous delays
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In reality it would probably increase congestion because a significant proportion of those people who would have been cycling will now just be in a car instead. 🤷
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If you removed all cycling from roads, the impact on congestion would be virtually imperceptible.
What you're really being delayed by constantly is other cars, and the infrastructure that's necessary to allow them to travel in different directions on the same piece of road.
Petteri Mommo@Petteri_Mommo
@NealOKelly @but_cyclists @Bikery1966 Congestion is cars. Have a little cry if you need to but that´s the truth.
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@Simon7687928894 @BobFromAccounts Wow, you 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 hate children.
Why?
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@BobFromAccounts I enjoy the progressives child like view of the society they've built, they still clamber onto the notion that they've created a high trust society.
Like the view point of most children, it couldn't be further away from the truth.
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Suggesting that not every short journey needs to be made in a car inevitably leads to the question, "How do you expect me to transport my van load of tools?"
London, hold my beer
👇
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@gavmarten @BobFromAccounts Blue check➕<100 followers ➕saying something rage-bait stupid 🟰 block.
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@BobFromAccounts Looks nice and secure for when they park up. Isn’t it great that we have such low crime in our cities that we can leave our valuable tools of the trade on show whilst we’re in and out of a customers site, or even grabbing a sandwich.
Fool.
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Matt Carphree retweetledi
Spare a thought for the small business owners who had to beg and borrow to pay a $145,000 tax on that $100K shipment of product that happened to arrive while the most extreme China tariff was in place, only to see their president back down with zero Chinese concessions. 1/
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@climbtechy @Bikery1966 @BobFromAccounts @CS3Count So you are desperately searching for anything that will fit your narrative.
Why not just be OK with people’s ability to choose to either drive or bike? Why does that threaten you so?
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Your regular update: As of 9 am this morning, 1042204 cycle journeys have been made since the start of the year along the Embankment in the cycle lane ‘nobody uses’. If it keeps going up like this it could be a record year @CS3Count
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@NewportHunnid @twilightsname @ShabazzStuart “Brother, it does not say that.”
Is scrolling up really that hard for you? The OP specifically mentions the city
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@twilightsname @ShabazzStuart Brother, it does not say that. You can’t quote something incorrectly like that lmao. He said New Yorkers are fleeing, and then a comma, and then more words, and THEN city.
“Oh but he means” regardless, you misquoted something RIGHT INFRONT OF YOU.
Like HOW???
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@ThisOneAgain123 @Boenau Trading civil infractions for felonies.
Sure, technically that counts.
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There's an easy way to never get a ticket from a speed camera.
Some of you still haven't figured out the way.
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In 11 years, crashes involving people on bikes and pedestrians have killed 11 New Yorkers.
In the same period, drivers in New York killed 1,359 pedestrians.
124 car-related death for every 1 bike-related death.
Spectrum News NY1@NY1
Cyclists could face criminal summonses instead of a traffic ticket for minor offenses, like running red lights or refusing to stop at stop signs, under a new NYPD policy. Read more: specne.ws/1mMnAM
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@StreetsblogNYC Let’s have DOGE in to audit this “data”.
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Meanwhile, here in reality, Citibike data shows that an average of 870 rides are taken from Elmhurst docks each day.
Bub@MistaBubonic
Lovely day for a bike ride. Unfortunately, nobody rides bikes in Elmhurst. Why are there Citibikes here when no one uses them?
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@MistaBubonic That's like taking a picture of parked cars and saying no one is driving.
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Matt Carphree retweetledi
“People accused of crimes are guilty” —guy accused of pedophilia
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@FortPointer “Flynn added the still signalling bike lights in particular are causing problems, because people see a little green and assume they can go”
Those same callers will claim to “not see” full size humans on bikes…
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Councilor Flynn is not only asking for removal of bus lane paint from the Summer St pilot, he's asking for elimination of green signal lights that allow cyclists to protect themselves by getting a headstart b4 activation of the signal for cars/trucks. 😡 universalhub.com/2025/south-bos…
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@RalphieRaccoon @Boenau “They also reduce them to discourage driving by making journey times longer.”
Please link to source
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@MattyCiii @Boenau Cities lower speed limits to reduce pedestrian and cyclist fatalities usually. Below 30mph driver fatalities are pretty rare. They also reduce them to discourage driving by making journey times longer.
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Bike lanes help reduce vehicle speeds, which helps reduce severe crashes, which means fewer cars needing expensive repairs, which is a problem for automotive repair shops.
So yes, bike lanes cause problems.
𝕲𝖆𝖑𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖆𝖓𝖘 6:11@6Galatians
@benjyminty @slmimorgan @Boenau bike lanes do cause problems. sometimes those problems are exceeded by their benefits
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@RalphieRaccoon @Boenau Consider this:
The top selling vehicles today are 25% longer than top vehicles from 2011.
Same # of drivers use 25% more space. This causes lots of traffic.
Blame car companies for pushing pickups and SUVs
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@RalphieRaccoon @Boenau I agree cities have:
1. Reduced space for cars
2. Lowered speed limits
3. Encourage cycling.
These are different cities though.
Space is reduced where demand is low. Cities lower speed limits to reduce driver fatalities. Some cities encourage cycling but provide no safety
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@RalphieRaccoon @Boenau Has any city or nation actually done this? Please cite examples
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@MattyCiii @Boenau If you put enough bike lanes in you could reduce both average and top speed significantly, via reduced speed limits and reduced road capacity.
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