I don’t live in the space you’re describing. I live in a space where the bike lane is 2 cm. And then there’s a ditch. And the cars go really fast, and there’s tons of huge to trucks too. You literally can’t ride your bike a mile without risking your life every single time. I want to see that fixed. Yeah barriers and all the nice things would be great, but I want to be able to ride a bike. I can’t do that right now. I think we should fix all of those places, even just making it 0.6m /2 feet wide of a shoulder on the road with no other markings or protections would make me ecstatic. So forgive me for not giving a fuck about protected bike lanes at this point in my life.
I think you have to jump all the way to fully protected bike lanes to get a widespread shift going.
A very small improvement in the width of the unprotected bike lanes would not be enough for the majority of potential bike riders. Then, the opponents have the opportunity to point out the lack of use and crow that the whole idea is a waste of time and money.
But a big change would have a big response, and would relieve a lot of commuters from their reliance on cars. Then the argument that bike lanes are worth the cost and space in cities would have some results to back it up.
I don’t live in the space you’re describing. I live in a space where the bike lane is 2 cm. And then there’s a ditch. And the cars go really fast, and there’s tons of huge to trucks too. You literally can’t ride your bike a mile without risking your life every single time. I want to see that fixed. Yeah barriers and all the nice things would be great, but I want to be able to ride a bike. I can’t do that right now. I think we should fix all of those places, even just making it 0.6m /2 feet wide of a shoulder on the road with no other markings or protections would make me ecstatic. So forgive me for not giving a fuck about protected bike lanes at this point in my life.
I think you have to jump all the way to fully protected bike lanes to get a widespread shift going.
A very small improvement in the width of the unprotected bike lanes would not be enough for the majority of potential bike riders. Then, the opponents have the opportunity to point out the lack of use and crow that the whole idea is a waste of time and money.
But a big change would have a big response, and would relieve a lot of commuters from their reliance on cars. Then the argument that bike lanes are worth the cost and space in cities would have some results to back it up.