On 10/9/2019 8:07 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 14:10:31 UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 10/9/2019 12:21 PM, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Wednesday, 9 October 2019 09:44:51 UTC-4, 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. 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.
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!
I was riding along a side street in a city near to me and came to a cross street that had a sign ONE WAY Bicycles Excepted. No to me that's a pretty stupid thing to do since any automobile entering that one way street would NOT be expecting a bicyclist to turn up that street going what the automobile driver would think is the wrong way. It's a brilliant setup for an accident waiting to happen.
Actually, that can work quite well. A contraflow bicycle lane is one
place that I approve of striping special lanes for bikes. Such lanes can
save considerable travel distance for cyclists, and if done properly can
be adequately safe. See
http://www.bikexprt.com/research/con...ngerichtet.htm for
example.
But the details have to be done right.
http://www.bikexprt.com/massfacil/ca...q/litlconc.htm
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That one way road where bicycles are allowed to ride counter to traffic flow is a narrow side street WITH NO bike lane. Just imagine it. You're driving down this street and approaching the intersection when suddenly a bicyclists turns left from that other street and is now on your right side. You're not expecting a bicyclist to do that. It'd be bad enough in daylight but it'd be a LOT WORSE at night especially if the bicyclist did not have adequate lighting if they had any lighting at all. Like I said, it's an accident waiting to happen.
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