The explanations provided in this article are the same stupid fucking reasons it’s next to impossible and dangerous to ride a bike in America.
No, a bike is not a car and it should not be treated like one.
No, no one I know wants to hop on a bike and share the same lane as a semi truck or teenager in a lifted truck texting on a phone.
Having a bike lane (preferably separate from the main road) where there is at least some breathing room is the only way most people would even consider it. God forbid you should fall off or crash, you don’t risk losing your life over something that would otherwise be a scraped knee.
GTFO with your bikes are cars bull shit.
It’s going to take several generations to remove the shit stain of “vehicular cycling” that John Forester has left behind
If you wouldn’t trust your child to safely bike the lane, the lane is unsafe for any cyclist is how I like to look at it.
Yes, a bike is a car and should be treated like one. I’m tired of assholes like you yelling ‘get off the road’ or telling me to endanger pedestrians by riding in the sidewalk or mixed use trail or the door lane or the bicycle gutter.
What we need is normal roads with barriers blocking off cars from entering.
Bikes are cars. Treat us like them.
What we need is normal roads with barriers blocking off cars from entering.
Bikes are cars.
So pedestrians only on these roads? Like a sidewalk?
Or are you saying bikes should be treated JUST like cars, except better, with routes that exclude cars?
It sounds like what you want is separated, protected, raised bicycle lanes.
And I’m no fan of rising on the sidewalks, but cycling is literally one of the uses for a mixed use trail.
Jesus they don’t need to spend 100,000 pounds. Just block every other road to cars and you’ll have a perfect happy medium between car roads and bicycle roads.
Bikes aren’t pedestrians and shouldn’t share any aspect of public space with them. I don’t care beyond that. Additionally if a biker ever complains about pedestrians being “in the bike lane,” the biker should be jailed, their bike impounded, and be forced to ride one of those 1800’s Big wheel bikes.
I share space with pedestrians every day on multi use paths. I think bikes and pedestrians are perfectly compatible.
It’s really just the cars that don’t seem compatible with anything else…
