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Maybe norms work differently in the US. Bikes are the majority on cycle paths. But that doesn't stop 'mopeds' from passing left and right. Car drivers don't hav
by phicoh 9y ago
Maybe norms work differently in the US. Bikes are the majority on cycle paths. But that doesn't stop 'mopeds' from passing left and right. Car drivers don't have much patience with bikes and mopeds that should be on the bike path but are blocking the main road instead. So the slow mopeds stay on the bike path (where they legally have to be as well).
Bike paths are good for avoiding accidents where car and bike travel in the same direction. Certainly outside cities they are much better than having bikes on the road.
Unfortunately, they don't help much on intersections. So that's where lots of accidents now happen. In fact they make the situation worse, because when a truck tries to take a right turn, bikes continue going straight on the bike path.
- nbanks 9y agoI firmly believe right turn lanes ought to be to on the right side of the bike path because cyclists are way faster than pedestrians crossing a crosswalk. That way the motorist has to cross the bike path as one step, then turn right as a second step. They only have to check one thing at a time. Bidirectional bike paths are even worse. In Montréal I've crashed into a couple cars which were turning left across a bike path--but the bike path was on the wrong side of the road!