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City of Vista, near San Diego is removing protected bike lanes after community pushback
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Those types of protected bike lanes get built up with detritus and are often never street swept or cleaned out. Cities seemingly do not plan for ongoing maintenance.
I live in San Diego, and bike a lot. These bike lanes are all over San Diego. They have small street sweepers that fit in there to clean them.
The City of Vista is a community that is part of the urban San Diego landscape, and a couple of decades back it was somewhat rural, which was changed by the suburban sprawl. However, there are still a lot of rednecks that live there, and bike lanes are often viewed by these folks as "liberal bullshit", and blame them for displacing car lanes and parking.
While the video notes that some unspecified bike users don't like the lanes, I'm highly skeptical of that. I ride in similar lanes all over San Diego, and they are a godsend, as they do a good job of keeping cars separated from bikes. A more likely explanation is that the "bikers" complaining are typical conservative rednecks that hate bike lanes in general, and not the people that actually use bike lanes.
I don't understand how "traveling using your muscles" became less "manly" than "sitting on your ass".
Someone who rides up a big hill on a bike? Fit. Impressive. Admirable.
Someone who drives a car? Boring. Passé. Dull.
Same reason sitting on one's fat ass watching football is more manly than running a 10k.
Things cannot be manly if they don't cause any pollution. If you're traveling without owning the libs with your diesel truck rolling coal, what is even the point of traveling?
I think it's considered manly because of the power dynamic of ypu having control over something that could easily kill you
I see how people might think that.
Personally I think power is... Let me quote from classic web comic the order of the stick:
Thinking you're powerful because you have a big car is foolish