First class costs $200 more than coach? Oh, you dear sweet summer child.
I’ve been skipping all of the (many!) polls about urine cups. I mean, WTF?
I guess it depends where you live. Where I am (suburb of San Francisco) bicycle lanes are not heavily used, but I do see a cyclist on them occasionally. In Amsterdam, where I used to travel on business regularly, there are thousands.
Certainly.
And I’m not a cyclist, I might even gripe about cyclists from time to time, but frankly I don’t blame them for not using most of the “bike lanes” I’ve seen. Mostly they’re just an extra line drawn on the existing lane that makes both the car and bike “lanes” each too narrow for either. I would at least consider bicycle travel if it were much better than that.
And let’s ignore that you get more room, and get preference in many ways? (Like, if the flight is cancelled, they TAKE CARE of the first class passengers.) And just worry about what tableware you’ll get? Seriously?
I see cyclists in bike lanes all the time. There are intersections where i routinely need to wait for cyclists to pass before i can turn right. I’ve never seen a cyclist going the wrong way in a designated bike lane, either.
In SF, along the embarcadero, there was a bike lane, but the cyclists prefered the sidewalk. From what I was told, they killed one small dog and put an elderly lady in the hospital. They claimed it was “safer”. 
Exactly.
Yes, I had some, the only one I remember was from my Aunt, it was a very soft skunk I named “skunky”. Very original. I got rid of them all.
BUT my wife and friends noticed i like wolves, so I have received several wold plushies, which I keep.
The first one was Okay, the rest went too far.
Then what should they use? Not the sidewalk I hope.
We do have one locally, it is very wide, it is rarely used, but at least only little kids use the sidewalk instead- which is fine.
I named one of my stuffed animals but it was really a description more than a name. I named him teddy dog because my very young mind said that teddy bears were the only stuffed animal, but he was a dog. (and all dogs are boys)
I don’t think I ever addressed him as such and I never talked to him.
In this particular city where I happen to be spending a lot of time, there are lots and lots of bike lanes, and they are somewhat lightly used. One of the reasons for that is that the city decided to paint them in an area that bicyclists call the “door zone”: cars are parked just inside the bike lane, so a cyclists runs something of a risk of getting “doored” by a driver getting out of the car they just parked.
Getting doored is seriously bad. A cyclist wants to ride at a decent speed, which often exceeds 15mph. Running into a car door at that speed often leads to major injury or sometimes death. It does not happen often, but in most cases, one time is plenty.
The other reason cyclists avoid the bike lanes is that they reside in the drivers’ blind spots. A motorist may see a bike in the bike lane, but a motorist has the spatial awareness of an infant and the memory of a goldfish. A bicyclist who is not in the lane of traffic almost instantly becomes non-existent once passed, which leads to what is called the “right hook”, where the car turns in front of the bike that was just passed. The traffic lane seems more dangerous from an intuitive perspective, but bicycles are actually very rarely rear-ended in the lane, because drivers see them there and drivers are mostly not psychopathic.
This here city has lots of streets, though. Bicyclists who want to get somewhere, alive, simply avoid the streets with bike lanes as much as possible. There is almost always a better way to get through town than the arterials, and some of the lesser streets are even designated as bicycle-priority.
I don’t remember naming any stuffed animals, but my parents have told me I named all the pillows in the house. I only vaguely remember a corduroy pillow named Whoop.
In my area of the city, they’ve recently installed permanent “cones” blocking the bike lane from traffic…which is a very good thing because these streets are pretty narrow. I can remember biking to the beach as a kid, and the one main street was only two lanes (one each direction) with ditches on either side. The trucks that passed us liked to get really close so that we’d end up in the ditch. Bastards.
I had a stuffed chimp called Zippy, but he came with a t-shirt that said “Zip” so he probably doesn’t count. We had a stuffy black cat hand puppet called Inky, and my mom made us a Native American soft stuffed doll and called her Laughing Water. I don’t know if it’s because they had names, but I loved those two.
I had a white teddy bear called Benbow.
I don’t remember who named him.
What would it mean for cyclists to treat bike lanes as “two-way”? Some cyclists going the wrong direction?
I’ve only seen bikes being ridden on the wrong side of the road on roads without bike lanes, ftr.
We just finished our basement, so i guess we have a lot more square feet of space than we used to.
There are plastic bed pans?
…Googling…
Yes, of course there are. I’d only been aware of the stainless steel kind.
Last October I created a poll about when, if ever, a midcentury American subdivision will be designated an historic district. Well, Sacramento now has such a district. So those of you who picked “within the next 10 years” were correct, unless there was a midcentury that already existed when I created the poll. And the plurality who said they didn’t think such a neighborhood would ever be granted historic status were wrong.
As long as they stay off the sidewalks.
I agree. Sidewalks are dangerous for everyone when bikes are on them.
I have no idea of the area of my house.
I’d guess it’s quite small.
I had a rough idea, but I looked my house up on Zillow – which is probably still a bit of an educated guess.