A clever solution to BCC’s cowardice
BCC has been repeatedly removing ghost bikes from a site on Nudgee Rd after a cyclist died at the location last year, despite years of warning from cycling advocates that improved infrastructure was needed in the area. To stop them from removing the ghost bikes, highlighting the blood on BCC’s hands, *and* highlighting the absurdity of how storing private property on public land is completely ok if it’s a car, someone installed this ghost trailer.
@brisbane
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I had heard about the ghost bikes being repeatedly removed, but I rarely travel Nudgee Rd myself. Happened to drive down it last night and spotted this ingenuous solution to the problem. Had to stop and capture it.
edit: hmm, looks like Lemmy can’t show images attached to replies. Shouldn’t be too much of a surprise I guess. See it in reply.
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Is it parked in a parking bay or on a cycle lane? It’s hard to tell from the angle.
OP’s reply, for those who can’t see it:
yeah fair question. It’s the road shoulder. See my reply to @_cnt0 for more details
Hey there are some funky things going on here with the federation. Looking at the user’s Mastodon, there are replies to @_cnt0@sh.itjust.works and @jonne@infosec.pub. I can see those replies on their respective instances, too. But I don’t see the replies from aussie.zone.
Also, when looking at jonne’s instance, I don’t see any replies other than OP’s and jonne’s.
edit: wait, that’s simple. infosec.pub defederated sh.itjust.works. I kinda get it, they had a bit of a rep early on IIRC. Though they also defederate feddit.nl, which seems odd. Isn’t that a fairly innocuous instance?
Still not sure why I can’t see OP’s replies from aussie.zone though. @lodion@aussie.zone, any thoughts?
Looks good on my end, I can see both user’s replies from jerbora. Possibly an issue behind the scenes?
Edit: I can see a bit of the issue actually, looks like some of OP’s replies aren’t there, but both user’s and all of your quotes are too.
Huh, looks like one of OP’s replies which wasn’t showing up for me before is now, but the other still is not.
Blocking the bicycle lane in an already dangerous spot with a utility trailer …
Really smort.
OP’s reply, for those who can’t see it:
it’s not actually a bike lane. It’s the road shoulder. There are 🚲 symbols on the road there, but in Qld law that doesn’t actually constitute a bike lane (it has to have a 🚲 symbol & the word “lane” to be that), instead, it’s solely a reminder to drivers “hey, cyclists might be here so look out”. There are many, many cars parked in the shoulder near this; 1 more trailer is not adding risk that didn’t already exist. But it is doing some incredibly Good by bringing attention to the issue.
Ghost bikes are the only bikes Ive seen in many years.
