tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710210749226697131.post953426936457297085..comments2023-06-09T06:34:29.537-07:00Comments on Do You Live Here Or Ride Bikes?: Death to bike lanes?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18042321252391810829noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710210749226697131.post-60810240941790210022009-07-27T18:49:36.626-07:002009-07-27T18:49:36.626-07:00Honest to goodness bike lanes provide space for bi...Honest to goodness bike lanes provide space for bikes with some separation from cars. I like them. The problem is that many "bike lanes" are really just striped off gutters, filled with glass, grates, and debris. One of my biggest cycling pet peeves!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08386847084051294154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2710210749226697131.post-34339315941696672512009-07-22T23:08:26.149-07:002009-07-22T23:08:26.149-07:00Bike lanes aren't a perfect solution, but at l...Bike lanes aren't a perfect solution, but at least they reserve 3-5 feet of additional lane so that slower moving traffic can move to the right to allow people to pass.<br /><br />In a downtown it might not be so important (if Tigard is trying to get people to slow the eff down in the remains of downtown, more power to them) but there are lots of places around town where the automobile traffic goes 40 mph whilst my xtracycle plods along at 5-20mph. And there it's only civil to be able to get out of the way if I can.<br /><br />And I'm pleased to report that at least in Multnomah and Clackamas county the vast majority of the drivers will swerve *way* out of the way even if I'm in a bike lane or on the shoulder.<br /><br />I do wish that the DOT would get it into their tiny little heads that shoulders and bike lanes need to be swept periodically, but that's just a matter of pestering them (when I worked downtown, I had a coworker who rode in from a distant SW suburb, and his daily routine would start with a phone call to the road department listing every place where there was either junk on the road or someone using the bike lane as a parking spot) until they figure it out.orchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14127551500120547348noreply@blogger.com