Where I’m at, they added a “bike lane” on the highway… Which is literally just the shoulder barely wide enough for a cyclist… on a very busy highway that sees lots of trucks and trailers and wide loads, in addition to people travelling at highway speeds. No divider, just a paint line.
That’s not a bike lane, that’s an accident about to happen.
We need real bike lanes, divided by something more than 2 inches of paint, to prevent traffic fatalities.
That only works if the traffic flow is terrible and constantly backed up. Where I’m at, traffic doesn’t back up like that, so the whole mass of cars is always moving 55+
Where I’m at, they added a “bike lane” on the highway… Which is literally just the shoulder barely wide enough for a cyclist… on a very busy highway that sees lots of trucks and trailers and wide loads, in addition to people travelling at highway speeds. No divider, just a paint line.
That’s not a bike lane, that’s an accident about to happen.
We need real bike lanes, divided by something more than 2 inches of paint, to prevent traffic fatalities.
Heh, heh, heh!
That only works if the traffic flow is terrible and constantly backed up. Where I’m at, traffic doesn’t back up like that, so the whole mass of cars is always moving 55+
Where I’m at, we call those “murder strips”. They are all being replaced by full worthy bike lanes with hard dividers. It’s a slow process though