| ▲ | lukan 6 days ago |
| In some places the only way to make a bike bath is to reduce a car lane. I am all for it out of general principle, but most car drivers will likely disagree. |
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| ▲ | scott_w 6 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| It makes no difference, I’ve seen people pushback even when that lane doesn’t remove a regular road lane! |
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| ▲ | osigurdson 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I guess it depends on demand. If bikes are 100-to-1 then make a bike lane, if the other way around maybe not. Need to remember that tax-payers actually fund this stuff so can't just force random stuff on them. |
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| ▲ | lukan 6 days ago | parent [-] | | That is true, but the thing is, without bike lanes, people won't switch to bikes in certain traffic conditions. Cyclists pay taxes btw. too and a bicycle with its low weight is magnitudes cheaper for the roads, then the SUV tanks. | | |
| ▲ | osigurdson 6 days ago | parent [-] | | I guess it is reasonable to run some experiments, set up some bike lanes for a period of time. If they are used, keep them, if not maybe consider removing them. Good point regarding the costs. The other advantage of dedicated / purpose-built bike paths is they likely don't have to be built to the same spec as ones designed for vehicle use (I assume - not a civil engineer). | | |
| ▲ | ryukafalz 5 days ago | parent [-] | | Careful, this often ends up with cities and towns building isolated pilot bike lanes that go nowhere and then ripping them out when nobody uses them. The value of a bike lane isn't in the lane in isolation, in the same way that the value of a street isn't in that street alone. It's in the ability of that lane/street to get you where you need or want to go. |
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