Thursday, August 13, 2009

Another post on door zone bike lanes

I've touched on this already and will again, but I think it is a huge problem. Placing bike lanes in the door zone of parallel parked cars is not wise. It encourages novice bicyclists to ride in harms way in the wrong position on the road, as well as to make incorrect and unsafe turns. I only took one engineering ethics course, but I believe those ethics would dictate that it is better to not have a bike lane altogether (or wiser markings such as properly placed sharrows) than it is to encourage poor bicycle driving. This link explains this in more detail. Poor infrastructure leads to poor biking and poor biking will never get cyclists the respect they deserve both on the road and when designing the roads.

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