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Making "protected" bike lanes safe
On 4/10/2019 12:49 AM, Chalo wrote:
It's all folly until we ban cars from areas where there are cyclists and peds present. Protected bike lanes are about increasing safety, but that's not the only reason for them. In my city, we had a high school student killed who would still be here today if there had been a protected bike lane so the truck that the cyclist and the truck would have been physically separated. The other big issue that cities face is cars, and other vehicles using unprotected bike lanes for various other purposes. Passing on the right. Drifting into the bike lane. Deliveries. Pick-up and drop-off. Pulling over a driver to give them a traffic ticket. Turn on your emergency flashers and the whole world's a parking space. Stick a cone behind a delivery or service vehicle and you're good to park there for a long time. If we want to increase the percentages of cyclists we have to increase both actual safety and the perception of safety. Just putting protected bike lanes in areas where there are the most conflicts is probably sufficient. The other issue is at intersections you need to bring the bicycles and pedestrians closer together to avoid right hooks (or left hooks in left-drive countries). There are other issues to consider as well, how do you do street cleaning? How do you pick up garbage in areas where the trash cans need to be by the curb? |
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