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Guerrilla Bike Lanes: San Francisco Makes Illicit Infrastructure Permanent (2016)

68 points zenincognito 1 hour ago 13 comments

luqtas 55 minutes ago | parent

what an absurd the hipster population taking over spaces of deadly, noisy and polluting vehicles and having the state collaborating with them /j

ortusdux 52 minutes ago | parent

The logical escalation of desire paths - https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desi...

irjoe 44 minutes ago | parent

Title needs (2016) appending

stetrain 33 minutes ago | parent

Some DOTs have given official support to Tactical Urbanism, with methods for communities to propose and implement small projects themselves on accelerated timelines like bike lanes or pedestrian crosswalks.

baoooooooooooo 15 minutes ago | parent

It’s effectively crowdsourcing urban planning, I’m in support.

I honestly think if we invited this type of empowerment/interaction in the physical world a bit more it would probably be good for spurring creativity in society (I think we do a pretty good job of it in software). It’s just a nice reminder that everything is just made up by someone else, likely no smarter than you.

Also I can’t believe this was 10 years ago lol

jgbuddy 28 minutes ago | parent

if you want it done right, you often have to do it yourself

bragr 24 minutes ago | parent

There's another side of stuff like this. People living up in the hills above LA near trail heads will put up fake no parking zones in front of their houses. People have gotten real tickets in fake zones.

riffic 13 minutes ago | parent

a counterexample of good tactical urbanism in Los Angeles People's Vision Zero, a group painting crosswalks where the city itself won't budge on safety demands (motonormativity is the rule)

https://www.reddit.com/r/BikeLA/comments/1pl8guj/i_started_a...

GaryBluto 7 minutes ago | parent

>painting crosswalks where the city itself won't budge

So, political vandals?

riffic 6 minutes ago | parent

direct action gets the goods

GaryBluto 4 minutes ago | parent

But people obviously don't want the "goods", by and large. Otherwise the city would budge.

Bengalilol 7 minutes ago | parent

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