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>Culture helps a lot. In the US bikes are seen as an annoyance by many drivers. Which is a silly opinion for drivers to have IMO. The more people are biking th
by wnevets 9y ago
>Culture helps a lot. In the US bikes are seen as an annoyance by many drivers.
Which is a silly opinion for drivers to have IMO. The more people are biking the less cars that are in my way.
- sampo 9y agoMaybe drivers are like herd animals and are happiest when surrounded by other cars.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoTrue, but with the infrastructure setup in the US, more people biking means more bicycles on the road for you to deal with and drive around. Most places don't have bicycle routes and the ones that do have them usually just have a single, fairly narrow painted lane between parked cars and traffic. In some places, you aren't allowed to ride on sidewalks because you are technically a vehicle. So while it is a silly opinion to have in some cases, in others there are actual reasons for it which have some solutions.
- woolvalley 9y agoIn the usa, there are many roads without explicit bike lanes. Bicyclists on these lanes are like cars that drive very slowly and you have to overtake, in busy traffic. This is fairly rage inducing for most drivers. A lot of times on top of that, a single road will have dedicated bike dispersed through it. So one segment will have a bike lane, then cross an intersection and it doesn't have a bike lane anymore. A few more intersections later it starts having bike lanes again.