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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Bicycle infrastucture
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 18:43:06 -0500
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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'.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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