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>Additionally, they are often motivated by concerns for their own safety, because they feel like an afterthought in a transportation system dominated by cars.
by sleepysysadmin 6y ago
>Additionally, they are often motivated by concerns for their own safety, because they feel like an afterthought in a transportation system dominated by cars.
Because bike lanes were an afterthought. Cycling is very unsafe.
Originally bikes were expected to ride on sidewalks. The problem arose was that sidewalks were unsafe. Pedestrians would just walk into the way of the cyclists and the cyclists would be hurt.
So politicians looking to raise tax revenues started making it difficult to ride a bike. Helmets are required, bans from sidewalks, 20km/h speed limits of bike lanes/paths. Many reflectors on the bike. Bell or horn on the bike needed. This is all to harass cyclists.
Now that bikes are on roads, now you have cars just driving into the way of cyclsts and hurting them; possibly even killing them.
Why are cyclists always being hurt by everyone else?
- MereInterest 6y ago> Originally bikes were expected to ride on sidewalks. Depends a bit by what you mean by "originally". In the early 1900s, bikes traveled in the street. Pedestrians traveled in the street. Everybody was in the street. The idea that the streets are the sole province of the car, and that pedestrians/bikers may cross the street only where it does not inconvenience the car, is the result of marketing to avoid cars being liable for pedestrian injury/death. So, same story of cars being overly prominent, but stepping back another 50 years.