The explanations provided in this article are the same stupid fucking reasons it’s next to impossible and dangerous to ride a bike in America.
No, a bike is not a car and it should not be treated like one.
No, no one I know wants to hop on a bike and share the same lane as a semi truck or teenager in a lifted truck texting on a phone.
Having a bike lane (preferably separate from the main road) where there is at least some breathing room is the only way most people would even consider it. God forbid you should fall off or crash, you don’t risk losing your life over something that would otherwise be a scraped knee.
GTFO with your bikes are cars bull shit.
It’s going to take several generations to remove the shit stain of “vehicular cycling” that John Forester has left behind
If you wouldn’t trust your child to safely bike the lane, the lane is unsafe for any cyclist is how I like to look at it.
Bikes aren’t pedestrians and shouldn’t share any aspect of public space with them. I don’t care beyond that. Additionally if a biker ever complains about pedestrians being “in the bike lane,” the biker should be jailed, their bike impounded, and be forced to ride one of those 1800’s Big wheel bikes.
I share space with pedestrians every day on multi use paths. I think bikes and pedestrians are perfectly compatible.
It’s really just the cars that don’t seem compatible with anything else…
It’s an entitlement issue. I obviously want cars gone, at the very least from within urban cores, but ideally everywhere. But bikes also share the same issues as car-brained folks. Where they think that because they are a bike and that is better then a car, they should have priority over pedestrians and it’s up to the pedestrians to make sure they aren’t in the “bike lanes,” etc etc.
It’s important to codify that bikes only exist because of a courtesy, but much like cars, they do not hold any status above pedestrians, even if the citizenry has ceded a specific space for them.
No that’s fucking stupid. If pedestrians are in the bike lane they shouldn’t even be outside and its a mystery how they didn’t die in childhood by walking out in the middle of a highway before that. Get off the phone or get off the drugs or something. Just like cars shouldn’t be on the sidewalk or the bike lane. Everyone stays in their own lane and pays attention.
While I’m at it, your mom should be impounded and she is a big wheel bike.