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In Sweden until very recently it was _illegal_ to ride your bike in the street, if there was a parallel bike-lane. Then again, this country is virulently anti-c
by null_object 6y ago
In Sweden until very recently it was _illegal_ to ride your bike in the street, if there was a parallel bike-lane. Then again, this country is virulently anti-cyclist. Some town councils give lip-service to the whole green-biking movement, because they feel it makes them look good. But the infrastructure is terrible, drivers are aggressive and confrontational, and the entire media-debate is based on an unstated understanding that cyclists are ‘stealing’ space from cars.
- sandworm101 6y agowell, in my neck of the woods there is a fight going on between bicycles and pedestrians. The wave of commuter bikes are taking over paths that used to be reserved for people on foot. It is the same debate: two wildly dissimilar vehicles trying to share the same narrow bit of pavement. If bikes win out over cars for the right of way on roads, what then will the bikes say to pedestrians? Pre-car, pedestrians owned the roads. So too did horses. So why should i not walk my dog in the bike lane?