Tom Sherman writes:

Eric Vey wrote:
Jens Müller wrote:
Eric Vey schrieb:
Jens Müller wrote:
Eric Vey schrieb:
An excellent animated graphic depicting both.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/multimedi...animation.html

Umm ...

The "bike lane" is too small to drive on. It seems to mark the
safety distance to be kept from the parking cars.

That's what they look like here. They are typically 1.2 meters
wide, but in my city, they are .9 meters wide.

1.2 m right next to parking cars marks the zone not to drive on, as well.
Bike lanes that run next to parallel parking are just plain
dumb. But there they are. And if you don't use the bike lane when
there is one there, then the motorists get mad at you....

Not according to the BICYCLE LANE ZEALOTS. Of course, they seem to
lack experience of real world motorists.

No, it is the anti-bike lane zealots who have no sense of reality.

Some drivers will get mad at you no matter what. In one case, some
woman screamed and honked at me while I was riding in a bike lane.
What got her mad is that I stopped at stop sign and she was somewhat
behind me and wanted to make a right turn, so she had to wait a
couple of seconds for me to clear the intersection. Traffic was
so light that, as far as I could see in either direction, including
along the cross street, there was precisely one bicycle and one
automobile using those roads.

There's a simple solution to the problem - don't give licenses
to people who lack the maturity needed to operate a motor vehicle.



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