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I would argue this is more to do with Portland culture of nice than anything. I love riding, but I have been run over. No thank you. I will bike for transporta

I would argue this is more to do with Portland culture of nice than anything. I love riding, but I have been run over. No thank you. I will bike for transportation the day we implement Dutch style separated bike lanes (i.e. by an actual physical barrier, even if only a slightly raised bike lane) Other than that, I drive my mountain bike to areas where there are no cars. Edit: in the city I'm in now, we just 'created' a bunch of bike lanes. Which means putting paint on a continuous stretch of asphalt and expect vehicles moving at 10mph that weight 50 pounds to do just fine sharing the road with vehicles weighing 2000+ pounds and going 50+ mph. Ridiculous and a waste of my tax dollars.

wool_gather 8y ago
> we just 'created' a bunch of bike lanes. Which means putting paint on a continuous stretch of asphalt Yeah, this kind of thing is really disappointing, but unfortunately predictable. There's a real chicken/egg situation. Few people will bike until there's safe support for it; until lots of people are biking, all the infrastructure just takes space away from the people using cars.