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The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? $3 million. The mayor says it's a great idea.

I live in a city with poorly implemented protected lanes and I absolutely feel less visible and less safe in the protected lane when approaching intersections. It is very common for folks in cars making turns to just cut me off so that I have to slam on my brakes to avoid colliding with them. Protected lanes can be much safer, but to do it correctly you have to sacrifice a large chunk of parking near intersections. Car people don't like to sacrifice those spaces.

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Any quick suggestions for adding a bathroom exhaust fan to a small bathroom in an old house?

Ideally you want to put a fan in the ceiling and then duct as straight as you can out of the room. If your joists are running perpendicular to the wall you should be able to find a space that isn't too bad to go straight out the wall. If you don't want to cut into the ceiling, or there just isn't enough space, Broan-Nutone also makes through-wall fans that are about as simple as it gets, this is what I have in my kitchen, and a lot of old homes have.

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