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• Post #2500617

  @Nath thanks. I seem to have done the thing that caused it to break before. Could you create more comments or a post in this Lemmy community?

• Post #2500616

  Portuguese court orders Wikipedia to censor article about far-right politician Caesar DePaço, removing information "relating to accusations of past crimes, an organization he was alleged to have founded, and his resignation (or dismissal) from a civil service post." The information was all factual and well-sourced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2025-08-09/News_and_notes Luckily, the Wayback Machine has an archive of the latest pre-censorship artic...

• Post #2500615

  An excellent episode of @notjustbikes's Urbanist Agenda with @BrentToderian. 5 stages of urban planning. 1: the wrong thing (car-centric design). 2: the wrong thing, but better (EVs are better than ICE cars). 3: have your cake and eat it too (widen roads while adding bike/transit lanes). 4: doing the right thing, badly (painted bike lanes). Alt 4: only the low-hanging fruit (bike lanes in parks). Finally, 5: doing the right thing, well. Says @brisbane did stage 3 when he was here.

• Post #2500614

  @DavidDoesLemmy true, but I dunno if there's really a better option in practice

• Post #2500613

  @jsl I would say that your examples for 5a, 5b, and 5d are actually examples of 4 (unless 5d is a bollard that stops cars *without* narrowing the path for cyclists). Your 5c example is just...good design. Floating bus stops are great. As long as they're clear about who has to give way (usually, this should be pedestrians, but at particularly high-traffic stops it *might* be appropriate for it to be cyclists who give way, indicated by a **raised "wombat" crossing**). htt...

• Post #2500612

  @jsl after writing my last comment I had a look. Apparently these are highly controversial in the UK? They're the norm in the Netherlands, and here in Aus I haven't heard much said about them either way. One problem with UK designs I see is rather narrow and short platforms. Two buses pull up, 2nd is directly on the bike lane, before the island. And even the one on the island doesn't have enough width before pedestrians hit the bike lane to give them time to view and eval...

• Post #2500610

  @jsl it also looks like the norm in the UK is to give pedestrians priority at crossing them, even when there are high volumes of cyclists. This is poor design. Cyclists rely on momentum, pedestrians can stop very very easily. Dutch bus islands certainly seem to give cyclists right of way. This should be reinforced with a continuing bike lane that *looks* like a bike lane, and a kerb-drop that pedestrians go *down* when crossing. 2/

• Post #2500609

  @jsl If they *do* want bikes to give way, the wombat crossings need to be more clear. The ones I saw seemed like very smooth, gradual hills, instead of feeling like a speed bump for cyclists and looking like pedestrian footpaths over the top. Better to use concrete or bricks than asphalt, even asphalt painted with zebra lines.(see pic for car example) And that's not even counting cases where the bike path goes *between* the shelter and the drop-off point... What an appalling design that...

• Post #2500608

  @jsl mixing bikes and buses is just a HARD no. I've had enough incidents on slower low-traffic inner-city roads where buses have pulled across DIRECTLY into me because they half overtook me and then decided "I have to stop here now". And that's before you get into the situation where the bus decides it's time to *pull out* around the same time the bike is coming. Bikes and motor vehicles do not mix.

• Post #2500607

  @simon the lesson *should* be "Bazball works...occasionally, and we need to adapt so we can have different strategies available for the majority of the time when it does not". But it's likely to be "look, see! It worked in Melbourne! Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane were just unfortunate accidents!"

• Post #2500606

  @perkinsy at least he did it when he was solidly in the groove. Instead of trying to play it in his *first over*, like Konstas did last year. ...Geez I hate the influence T20 has had over proper cricket.

• Post #2500605

  Hey #Brisbane, #Queensland folks, if you're not already aware, it's super important that you make submissions to the SDIWC committee to oppose the 10km/h speed limit for ebikes, requirement to have a driver's licence, and more. See more at Space4cyclingbne or CBD BUG Facebook pages, or from Bicycle Queensland. If you need some starter ideas, here's the letter to my MP in response to the inquiry the bill's based on (some details have changed but the bulk is...