Bike lanes

[Pohemi]

The citibikes are great, but I'm surprised they don't have a rear rack on them. The front flat rack is nice but weight on there (like a large bag of charcoal, lol) makes the steering a bit wonky.

 

[Ken g6]

As a car user I found "road diets", where one lane each way is replaced by a bike lane, annoying. Then I moved to a semi-bikeable neighborhood and started biking occasionally. Now I quite like them and I want more.

 

[Zorba]

So you agree they're a waste of money.

Doing anything shitty and half assed is a waste of money.

 

[MrSquished]

On the bus for a city date, the woman next to me is reading this book, and it's going on my list. We simply cater to the car way too much in cities, too much space is dedicated to storing cars.

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Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New...

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[brianmanahan]

i would like it because i don't dare ride on roads without them anymore.

a lady i knew got killed nearby a couple years ago, biking a couple hundred feet from her house on the road. she had a quarter mile ride over to the bikepath but someone hit her before she could make it.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

On the bus for a city date, the woman next to me is reading this book, and it's going on my list. We simply cater to the car way too much in cities, too much space is dedicated to storing cars.

Paved Paradise by Henry Grabar: 9781984881151 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

Shortlisted for the Zócalo Book Prize Named one of the best books of the year by The New Yorker and The New Republic “Consistently entertaining and often downright funny.” —The New...

www.penguinrandomhouse.com

- Despite the hypocrisy of it all, I do find myself wondering why the hell myself and all the people around me need a 4 seater 200HP vehicle to get to and fro from work or to pick up only so many groceries that I swear I can take inside with only one trip.

 

[MtnMan]

From what I have seen a much larger concern is vehicles deciding to obstruct the bike lanes.

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Gee what's missing?

Oh yea, people on bikes...

 

[Pohemi]

Gee what's missing?

Oh yea, people on bikes...

Gee, what flew over your head?

Oh yeah, the point of the post.

 

[MtnMan]

Gee, what flew over your head?

Oh yeah, the point of the post.

do I really have to include the /s?

 

[skyking]

I took the comedy option. I used bike lanes in Seattle and they are handy, but my observation is they are still a compromise.
I want more trails and corridors with limited controlled road crossings. If you can mix it up with cars it will happen. I have had more close calls with cars pulling across them, and across designated bike paths where they are crossed by many driveways.
Where I live now, it is a shoulderless no-man's land of 35 MPH roads that everybody does 50 on, and does not have a continuous sidewalk system in place.
That is my main gripe as posted all over above, this country is shit for sidewalks. Nobody wants to pony up for a consistent sidewalk system.

 

[Pohemi]

do I really have to include the /s?

Yep, I didn't detect that. My bad.

 

[biostud]

It has a lot to do about bike culture. Here it is everywhere, we learn about from kindergarten where there i bring your own bike day and traffic school, to expecting to use you bike to get to school and have more traffic school, when you take your drivers license you learn about being aware of bikes etc. Most people if they have less than 10km for work will use a bike, and with e-bikes many commutes even longer. I take two of my kids to their kindergarten 5 km away, two times a week, and I also get exercise and a nice view along the way.