On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 15:36:33 -0800 (PST), jbeattie
wrote:

Changing the subject, it's raining a lot, and my latest slip-fest is
on the utterly stupid yellow and green plastic dimpled transitions on
the super-duper cycletrack through the south waterfront. This stuff
is everywhere, and when you hit it at an angle (turning across it to
avoid on-coming dopes), your wheels slip out. It's like building
sidewalks and installing banana peels.

The people designing bike infrastructure seem to generally have no
notion at all of how to actually ride a bike in traffic. IME the bike
infrastructure (bike lanes, etc.) often makes riding worse rather than
better- to the extent that I wonder if that is actually the point.