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I remember biking around San Francisco, and constantly being lured into the dooring zone by sharrows.. Most of all though, coming from Europe, I was shocked by
by jopsen 6y ago
I remember biking around San Francisco, and constantly being lured into the dooring zone by sharrows..
Most of all though, coming from Europe, I was shocked by how wide the street was, how wide the pavements was, and the enormous amount of space dedicated to inefficient street parking, even on major roads.
Somehow 400-500 years old city centers in Denmark manage to find room for cyclist in the very narrow streets. Often dedicating them to pedestrians and/or bikes. And adding bike lanes on major roads. But this is old cities without room for making bike lanes.
In SF, you could have bikelanes everywhere, give up street parking on one side of street... Or even just make the pavement less broad on broadway :)
It's a choice, Americans choose not to. To be fair their cities tend to be less dense involve greater distances.
- wonnage 6y agoTheoretically the sharrows are supposed to be painted so that you're not in the dooring zone if you ride down the middle of the them. SF bike lanes are a joke though, most of them have no actual barriers, so Uber drivers will just park in them/use them as a passing lane.
- noobermin 6y agoYour last sentence is literally saying the same thing, the reason they are less dense (today) is because of preference for cars. Most city centers that developed before cars are much denser than the rest of the city. Routinely these parts were hallowed out for parking and often were where the poor (read black and immigrant) people lived.