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Indeed. We have pavement level cycle tracks in the part of East London I live in - I tend to stick to the roads since if if I'm doing 16-18MPH and a pedestrian

• ghaff 7y ago
  From the perspective of a pedestrian this always feels like a really bad pattern. The cyclists are going full speed past pedestrians who might only be a foot or so from them because, after all, they're in a marked bike lane. Meanwhile pedestrians are walking on a sidewalk, maybe not paying much attention, and probably not expecting something to slam into them if they moved over a bit or changed their direction at a crosswalk. A lot of people are not really trained to look both ways before crossing the sidewalk. Something I found in Japan was that it seemed like abnormal number of people rode bicycles on fairly busy sidewalks. I found I needed to really train myself not to change directions without looking behind me in case there was bicycle back there.
  • admax88q 7y ago
    In Japan however people seem to cycle at a more casaual pace.
  • bobthepanda 7y ago
    You can somewhat rectify this by bumping where pedestrians and cyclists are expected to cross between the bus stop and sidewalk, a mini-speed table of sorts: https://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC_0775.jpg https://bikeportland.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/DSC_0775...