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I don’t know why the solution that cyclists should be on the same grade as the pavement (the sidewalk), so that the pavement was about the width of a car lane,
by noodlesUK 6y ago
I don’t know why the solution that cyclists should be on the same grade as the pavement (the sidewalk), so that the pavement was about the width of a car lane, so that people could walk and cycle safely away from cars, and have plenty of room to avoid each other too. Why do we always sacrifice cyclists (and peds too) for the sake of cars. The bike lane, where it exists, in my area of suburbia basically forces you into a gutter where you will invariably crash into a bin and probably get squashed by passing traffic.
- notacoward 6y agoIIRC there were some bike lanes like this in Berlin the one time I visited. I've never seen them anywhere else. I think the best way to make bikes safe from cars is to give them their own separate infrastructure. What I worry about is that the infrastructure will be taken from that available to pedestrians. Where I live (suburbs near Boston) there are already too many roads without sidewalks. I've already gotten into more arguments than I can count with cyclists who believe an explicitly multi-use path near where I live either should be or already is bike-only. Maybe if "share the road" cyclists were also more willing to "share the path" I'd consider them allies instead of hypocritical rivals.