Faux hole painted in the road to slow cyclists - pic

Caution, bottomless pit ahead: To slow cyclists on the Regent's Canal towpath, a London safety campaign commissioned an artist to paint a faux hole in the road.

waterfall is a bit much.

Shouldn't scary bottomless pits have lava?

but I don't think any are from the other direction.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193610/Dont-look-Cyclists-faced-huge-hole-ground-towpath--luckily-just-pavement-art.html?ITO=1490

The artists also painted Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling falling down a black hole outside the Treasury before the Budget was announced in April.

Just imagine two cyclists coming down the path from opposite directions. One of them swerves to avoid the "hole" and runs right into the other. If safety was the point in slowing traffic down, they get a big FAIL.

Fun art.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompe_l'oeil

Mountain fucking Dew?

Double whammy street product placement. :puke:

Marina Dieul


Natalie Featherston

Once all the local cyclists know it's fake they'll just ignore it.

you're right on top of them.They are elongated for proper 3D effect. You have to be standing at a distance for the effect to work. Here's a site with lots more:
http://users.skynet.be/J.Beever/pave.htm

Those are really cool pics.

:hi:

We had a speeding issue on a few bike paths near my home a number of years ago. The county dealt with it by placing a few rows of Botts Dots in sideways chevrons across the bike trail. Bikers had two choices: Hit the dots at speed and risk rattled teeth and bent rims, or slow down enough to navigate the dot-free V shaped paths between the chevrons. They were tapered and short enough that they didn't present a trip hazard to pedestrians either.

The beautiful thing is that the trails have a 15MPH speed limit for bikes, and the V's were pitched just right so that a bike doing that speed could navigate them without slowing down at all. Bikers complaining about the dots were either speeding or not paying attention, and were thus ignored.

then the cyclist might fall in.

the cyclist would have rode across it without incident. Then when the Coyote came out to investigate it...... HE would have fallen in. :evilgrin:

The original pic and caption I posted is from the SFGate. Here is another article with more info...

Don't look down now: Cyclists faced with huge 'hole' in the ground on towpath... luckily it's just pavement art
By Chris Johnson

Last updated at 11:49 AM on 17th June 2009

This frightening image of crater-like hole in the middle of a towpath makes Britain's pot holes pale into insignificance.

Thankfully, it is just a three dimensional drawing of a canyon, all in the name of pavement art... and to make careless cyclists slow down.

The artwork was commissioned by British Waterways and has been installed along the Regent's Canal towpath in Islington, North London.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1193610/Dont-look-Cyclists-faced-huge-hole-ground-towpath--luckily-just-pavement-art.html?ITO=1490

So now the speeding cyclists will go around the hole, right into the path of pedestrians. Nice idea, British idiots.

How safe is that?

His name better not be released to the general public.

Edgar Müller is one of the best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOr3kHtQXVg&NR=1

former KU athletic director Bob Frederick hits a pothole while bicycling, flips over and dies (he was wearing a helmet)
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/content/mobile/705310321/Former-Kansas-AD-dies-after-bicycle-accident.html

UConn basketball coach Jim Calhoun hits a pothole while bicycling and breaks five ribs
http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/48027847.html