On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 11:57:05 UTC-4, sms wrote:
On 10/9/2019 6:44 AM, Steve Weeks wrote:
On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 12:32:33 PM UTC-5, Frank Krygowski wrote:

Here's what all that "Safety Inflation" ultimately generates:

https://www.thenational.ae/uae/trans...-push-1.920236

That's pretty much as extreme as you can get.

Well the original poster had to go all the way to Abu Dhabi to find an
example of "Safety Inflation" so that's a pretty good indication that
the rest of the world is not going to such extremes.

There's got to be a happy medium somewhere. Here in Chicago, I'd like to see *any* evidence of enforcement of bike laws. A good start would be people riding the wrong way on one-way streets or blasting
through red lights.

Be nice to also see some enforcement of cars, trucks, and buses blasting
through red lights, a much more common occurrence.

Of course, it would also be nice to see some action on cars parked in or driving down bike lanes, and other unsafe and illegal practices.
I'm not holding my breath. At least no one is snatching my bike while I'm riding it!

The solution to cars in bike lanes is to have protected bike lanes.
Trying to solve this problem through enforcement is a losing battle,
though I do call the police when I see this and they do come out, at
least in smaller cities, and issue a ticket. If I called in San
Francisco or San Jose they would be unlikely to respond and would
probably start laughing hysterically.

I called San Francisco Police Department once about a parking issue on
my mother-in-law's street the response was "yes it's illegal for people
to do that, no we won't come out and do anything, and no there's no one
else you can call that will do anything either," at least they were
perfectly clear.

Just what do bicyclists do when the "protected" bicycle lane ends or crosses any of many intersections such as driveways or streets? If bicyclist were to ONLY ride in "protected" bicycle lanes then where do they learn the skills needed to ride safely in traffic when the "protected" bike lane ends or there is no "protected" bike lane?

Cheers