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That sign usually means no entry for bikes so I was confused for a moment
Also fits because tourists would ignore most posted signs.
I agree the the comic is a bit confusing but to be fair it’s in black and white. A red border would mean no entry but a completely blue background would be only bikes allowed.
It makes sense to think that they are car owners that in their regular life wouldn’t tolerate bikes but on holidays find it great.
At least in Europe street signs are color blind friendly. Forbidden signs are white with a dark thick stroke around, while mandatory signs are solid dark color. The colors help, but are not necessary to distinguish the sign.
Now you are confusing me. I thought she is taking about the sign and about if someone would propose to put it in her town.
I think she means the whole idea of bike friendly infrastructure as a US citizen. But thats my interpretation, the comic isn’t very clear.
Yeah it is confusing. But as you pointed out the sign means no entry for bikes in most of the Europe, it doesn’t mean anything in US.
On the other hand this is titled car-brains on vacation. Implying they normally drive cars.
Really confusing.
The comic is clear. American suburbanites will go vacation in dense walkable European cities with good active transportation infrastructure and then will return home and attend city council meetings objecting to any plan that would bring similar changes to where they live.
The comic is a commentary on NIMBY behavior.
Since the sign is turned towards the viewer, it just seems as if someone drunk placed it a few meters right from where it was supposed to be.
One of the best posts to ever appear on this community/on this topic
10/10
Literally all my friends: “yeah it was really nice in [europe/asia] to be able to walk everywhere… But we could never do that back home!”
haha get out.
This comic is ablest. Bikes are ablest. Anything walkable is ablest. Arguing with me about it is ablest. Downvoting this comic is ablest. Everyone but me is ablest.
No, I will not talk about wheelchair accessible infrastructure ever.
[Mod hat on] A note to the person who reported this (and probably some of the downvoters): I appreciate your concern and if I thought this were actually trying to argue against biking and walkability as being “ableist” I’d certainly remove it for misinformation/trolling, but it’s obviously dripping with sarcasm so I won’t. Nevertheless, keep the reports coming because I do take every single one of them seriously.
[Mod hat off] To @UnderpantsWeevil: your joke would’ve been a lot funnier if there had actually been somebody in this thread holding the position you’re trying to mock (and quibbling about sign legibility isn’t that). As it is, it’s kind of a weird non-sequitur that definitely didn’t land the way you intended.
Trying to get out in front of criticism by preemptively mocking it doesn’t delegitimize it. Doing so just makes you look like you just switched topics from fluoridated water and are holding a bundle of stolen copper wire under your arm.
