On Thursday, May 4, 2017 at 11:13:26 AM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
These days there are lots of calls for "innovative" bike facilities -
new and original designs of road features installed just for cyclists.
These will supposedly make bicycling easy and safe for anyone aged 8 to
80. At the top of the list are "protected cycletracks" and bike boxes.

This official video from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada shows how
they want you to use those facilities. Would you send your 8-year-old
out to figure these out, or to make these recommended moves in traffic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7ii4XXwlg4&sns=em

I especially like the U-turns facing traffic in the bike boxes.
Wouldn't that be fun if the light turned green while you were facing the
cars?

Be careful what you ask for!


--
- Frank Krygowski

****, wouldn't it be far easier not to mention safer just to makethe turns the same way that motor traffic does?

IMHO, those bike boxes are accidents waiting to happen.

Cheers