sand trap 18 July 2021. Santa Cruz County Rail Trail Segment 18. Watsonville, CA. Bike paths are only car-free utopias in between the intersections with roads with cars on them. At the intersection with a road, a cyclist needs to pay attention to other users of the road that they are about to cross. A traffic engineer of a freeway would never put a sand trap between lanes for a road for cars, would they? And yet here we are. If it’s just cyclists, who cares! FUCK CYCLISTS! Let’s purposely create a surface hazard of hard-packed sand instead of smooth asphalt that the cyclist has to navigate around safely, just as they should be paying attention to the hazards of crossing the road they are approaching. #coastalrailtrail #santacruz #watsonville #leicam10m #m10m #35SummaritF25 #monochrom #monochome #bnw #blackandwhite (at Watsonville, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSDzr9RrF7C/?utm_medium=tumblr