#PaintIsNotProtection

2025-06-02

Supposedly these cars are smart but I keep seeing them do stupid shit. #tesla #FuckCars #DriverAccountability #Portland #paintIsNotProtection #pdxBikes

Tesla with a broken bumper parked facing the wrong way on Broadway protected bike lane, right next to two empty designated car storage spots, also missing the required front plate, does the dealership not provide the bracket?  Maybe we should require that to match the state law.  This bike lane should be protected by more than paint.
2025-05-17

@daihard bravo to that driver only. I took these two pictures at the same time while riding uphill with load on a trailer. #pdxBikes #paintIsNotProtection

Truck unloading in the bike lane behind meTruck unloading in the bike lane ahead, I'm riding in the bus lane
2024-11-02

Delivering some one-handed package, dude just turned out of a side street half a block down and parks on this sidewalk+bike lane. Even on 35mph #stroads, giant delivery trucks are slower than electric cargo bikes, and a hazard. Though probably OSHA wouldn't allow it, #paintIsNotProtection and neither are plastic sticks. Bus lanes would make a world of difference here if ODOT and Beaverton would play along. #bhHwy

FedEx truck parked in the bike lane and on the sidewalk, plastic posts on some of the paint
2024-10-10

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At least these two drivers parked on half of the car lane so if you're going around them on a bike the car behind you mostly needs to change lane anyways. The amazon driver is nestled tight into just the bike lane though. They should just mark several "STOP HERE FOR LOADING" rectangles in the left middle of the right car lane, maybe "TURN FLASHERS ON / KEEP BIKE LANE CLEAR" but that wouldn't be MUTCD compliant right. #trafficEngineers #PaintIsNotProtection #InducedDemand #EngineeringTraffic

An amazon truck and two cars parked in the bike lane on S Bond, the UPS truck right before a marked crosswalk, obstructing visibility of people crossing from behind the truck.  A person on a bike is approaching, having already gone around the truck, a car behind them and another in the extra car lane, about to go around the two double-parked carssame person on a bike in the next block onward, confronted with yet another car parked in the bike lane, parking, etc
2024-07-10

"Bicycles, #Gender, and Risk: #Drivers Behaviors When Passing [people on bikes] ... measuring passing distance on a minimum of 400 passing events on each type of roadway... Vehicle passing distances ranged from a mean of 90 inches on the #bollards -protected bike lane to lows of 62-63 inches on roadways with no facilities, shoulders only, and [ #paintIsNotProtection ]" (that's american for almost 1m difference)

genderpolicyreport.umn.edu/bic

2024-06-18

might need an Engineer to take a look at this paint.

#paintIsNotProtection #CarsRuinEverything #DriverAccountability #pdxBikes

ford SUV with oregon plate CA 25436, stopped on the bike lane stripe on a curvetruck with no front license plate, slightly on the bike lane paintjeep with oregon plate WC 44127, over the bike lane paint
2024-05-15

Still thinking about that near miss with the cop opening his door in my path while I was riding in a marked bike lane. A reminder to film all my rides, even the short neighborhood rides. #PaintIsNotProtection #bikechi

2023-11-30

oops is that a picture of #drivers ignoring #PaintIsNotProtection / #PBOT #pdxBikes "infrastructure" that poses zero threat to their car?

2023-10-08

Someone forgot the protection at the St Kilda Junction intersection.
The bike lane is also not wide enough to not be illegally close passed.

#Melbourne #VicRoads #BikeLanes #PaintIsNotProtection #bicycles

2023-10-05

@drnike @bicycletting @irishcycle @dublincyclingcampaign Nice, fresh and shiny! With only two obstructions on the far side where it looks mandatory and not simply advisory. #FreeTheCycleLanes #BikeTooter #PaintIsNotProtection #LipstickOnAPig

2023-09-04

for the #trafficEngineers in the back: If your "bike infrastructure" won't stop a car, it's not really infrastructure. #PaintIsNotProtection #stuffInTheStreet

2023-09-02

9 cars per minute "#SafeRoutesToSchool", this was after it settled down a little. #SpeedHumps are useless at #TrafficCalming #PaintIsNotProtection #FuckCars our #trafficEngineers have no idea how to make safe streets 😞 #DefundDOTs #BanSUVs and these people picking up kids with their #TruckLoadOfInsecurities, but if you can't swing that, just put some #StuffInTheStreet

2023-08-29

Me, on a bike, on ODOT #stroads, with a couple dashed stripes of paint.

ODOT, in a street sweeper, on ODOT stroads, with a crash-attenuation barrier truck riding sweep.

obviously, #PaintIsNotProtection πŸ™„ #ODOTGTFOpdx

2023-08-27

This is how you properly segregate infrastructure. #PaintIsNotProtection

A view of a road containing distinct pedestrian, cycle, and motor vehicle lanes, all separated from each other.
Denman Rooke πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έdenmanrooke@mastodon.ie
2023-08-26

Seems there's another incident of a driver colliding with a cyclist in Galway near Headford Road today. I hope they're ok.

We desperately need better safe & segregated cycling infrastructure in Galway. People's safety & lives are at stake here.

Paint is not protection.

#Galway #Cycling #PaintIsNotProtection

2023-07-17

#drivers who have not read the manual
+ #trafficEngineers who don't get it
= #Vision60or70Something and an endless supply of soul-crushing traffic

#VisionZero means designing and operating streets for actual safety, using physical obstacles, not by wishing drivers would follow rules and worn-off paint. #PaintIsNotProtection

driver turning a too-wide left into the bike and bus lane rather than the first (as per traffic law) or even the second car lane, because they want to be in the right lane for Bertha Blvd, and probably used to assholes who try to pass them in the turn

@ayo I’ll bet there are roads like that going from Durham into Chapel Hill here in NC (US). #PaintIsNotProtection #InfrastructureMatters

2023-07-14

What do you call this pointy lane-narrowing paint job? #BikeTooter #transportation #tacticalUrbanism (spotted in Hawaii) I like it. #PaintIsNotProtection, so it might as well be threatening to #drivers 🀷 . #PointyPaint

triangles in yellow and white along the lane lines, pointing in and toward the oncoming vehicle.

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