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Bike lanes success are well measured and will often carry more people than a car lanes will.
by jeromegv 2y ago
Bike lanes success are well measured and will often carry more people than a car lanes will.
- Filligree 2y agoThey carry more bicyclists, you mean. /s
- bluejekyll 2y agoNo, they also carry people on trikes, in motorized wheel chairs, scooters, joggers, people on those mono wheel things. Bikes might be the most popular choice, but many people are starting to refer to these lanes as “mobility-lanes” because they improve the lives of more than just bicyclists.
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- blackeyeblitzar 2y ago> Bike lanes success are well measured Where? Outside of cities with very high density I don't see this being true. For medium density and less, what I've seen is that bike lanes remain empty. Bike counters basically show them to be failures, since the utilization barely increases over time or even lags population growth, while the car lanes remain fully utilized.
- oopsallmagic 2y agoAre these the same bike lanes that start and stop randomly and are often just the shoulder of a 45-mi/h road with a bike, and implied middle finger, painted on?
- oblio 2y agoHave you EVER tried to bike for commuting, grocery shopping, transportation in general, on those bike lanes? If cyclists aren't using them, they're not doing it to spite you. They're doing it because there's no network and 500m of bike lane doesn't take them somewhere useful or because they're badly designed and dangerous or very unpleasant due to heavy car traffic, pollution, etc.
- pandaman 2y agoThere is a bike lane going to a popular trail and crossing multiple major streets, also with bike lanes, as well as passing by multiple apartment complexes near my house. A two way lane with curbs and bollards, no cars parked there, with bike traffic lights and many side streets with 2 way stops (no stop on the street with the lane) or, at least, 4 way stops. I do drive on the same street from/to work as well as ride on the same lane to the trails. There are not many cyclists on it, orders of magnitude fewer than there are cars on the same street. "Urbanists" greatly exaggerate the number of cyclists. And on top of being in the vast minority, cyclists don't ride many miles per day, they are limited by the biology. So, naturally, even if every motorist had the vehicle confiscated and replaced by a bicycle, you would not see nearly as much traffic of cyclists. And in reality the vast majority of the tiny minority of cyclists also own a car and use it for most trips, only riding for exercise/fun.
- tstrimple 2y agoEven smaller cities and towns can have good bike infrastructure. But it requires good interconnected infrastructure which largely doesn't exist in the US or Canada. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpcWUqVpIg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztpcWUqVpIg