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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Bicycle infrastucture
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 17:19:43 -0700
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On Fri, 17 May 2024 18:43:06 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 5/17/2024 5:19 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 May 2024 16:47:24 +0200, Wolfgang Strobl
>> <news5@mystrobl.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> Am Fri, 17 May 2024 07:37:54 -0500 schrieb AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Today's hilarious examples from my daughter:
>>>> https://momentummag.com/worst-bike-lanes/
>>> Many of these look like photoshopped fakes.
>> 
>> The first photo is likely a fake:
>> <https://momentummag.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/FmkhXmtWIAAuPQS.jpeg>
>> No leaves or tree debris on the path, while there is some in the
>> square area around the trunk.  The leaning trees should have cracked
>> the concrete.  Leaning trees are usually removed before they cause
>> problems.  The shadows on the trunks of the first two trees do not
>> match.  The shadow of the 3rd tree stops short of its top.  The
>> shadows of the trees further down the path in the marked island do not
>> match the shadows of the first 4 trees.  Nobody plants a tree in the
>> middle of a road or bicycle path without some kind of protection from
>> getting rammed by bicycles or other vehicles.
>> <https://www.google.com/search?q=sidewalk+tree+guard&tbm=isch>
>> 
>> I skimmed through some of the other photos.  Many looked suspicious,
>> but none are as obvious as the first photo.

>I don't know but that photo, above the date/header, is the 
>only example without a specified location, so it may well be 
>the editorial version of 'serving suggestion'.

That photo appears twice.  Scroll down to "Obstacle Course".  It's the
6th photo from the bottom.

If I ask Google to do an image search on that photo, it only returns
the original URL.  
<https://www.google.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmomentummag.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2023%2F11%2FFmkhXmtWIAAuPQS.jpeg&hl=en&tbm=isch&iflsig=AL9hbdgAAAAAZkf9cMur_ATsApRSsSD_TT8Ix48Yk_1Q>
That's unlikely since the worst obstructed bicycle lanes usually
appear on multiple web pages.  Hmmmm...  All the photos Google lists
(above) are from Momentum Magazine, which suggests that Momentum
Magazine might be the original source of the rather awful PhotoShop
work and is possibly creating its own content.  Lack of photo credits
also seems a bit odd:
<https://momentummag.com>
I haven't tried any of the other photos.

Everything is a conspiracy.


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