A vision of the future once "progressivism" rules humanity.
Not just California. City engineers and managers have a nationwide conspiracy to reduce the number of traffic lanes and to make lanes narrower.
I think we should go the other way and Embrace this Great idea! The way I would Embrace this great idea would be to put an initiative on the City Ballot Mandating that ALL City Employee’s use Public Transportation or Bicycle routes for their Daily Commute to the respective workplace. The Law would require severe consequences, IMMEDIATE TERMINATION and LOSS of PENSION BENEFITS!!!
A California success.
The Great Bicycle Infrastructure Complex has made bike lanes everywhere their goal. They view is it some safe panacea that will get butts on bikes. They ignore the people who are already on bikes in an effort to draw more people in.
It doesn’t work. Most people don’t want to ride bikes, they would rather sit in traffic no matter how long that takes.
The real problem is education of all road users.
You have motorists who are upset that people on bikes are using the road. That mentality leads to this bike lane crap. Because bike lanes are more about motorist convenience and much less about cycling safety.
Then you have the cyclist who cant behave appropriately on the road. They hug the curb and then swerve out into traffic when presented with an obstacle.
People on bikes need to be visible, and deliberate. They should be operating in the lane and motorists should change lanes to pass them.
But of course there will be people who will ignore what I am saying and demand bikes get in a bike lane, and then your city will institute some bike lane bullcrap to make you happy.
I don’t support most bike lanes they are really only necessary in a few places. Also nice connected trails help when the only option is high speed roads.
Some how pedaling my legs off to give my ass a ride isn’t good logic and getting sand blasted when a truck passes you isn’t good for you but you get a free sun burn.
Another case where liberal ideas do more harm than good.
Road bikers have a death wish
Mountain biking is where its at
Big knobby tires Shox real brakes.
Look kids youre allowed to ride your mountain bike on the road too !
but why would you ever want to ride around on 110 psi tires that are less than an inch wide. Makes no sense in 2019 riding around on 1970 s technology. ( 10 speed )
Every single road bike ride Ive ever met has some horror story about getting hit by a car
My scary stories are all about falling off cliffs and stuff like that
Make sidewalks a minimum of 10 feet wide and make the bicyclist ride there, safer for everybody.