New neighbourhoods in outer/suburban districts typically have well separated bike lanes for precisely the reason that mainline road traffic is often 18-wheelers for days.
I mean yeah fuck busses, trains are cool for very obvious reasons.
Like I said walk or take the train. But since that’s not an option for most people we’re forced into all these other awful modes of transportation, including bikes.
Bikes are mostly single use forms of transportation. Trains move large parts of the population and if we actually did city planning correctly you wouldn’t need a bike to get to and from work. You wanna ride it for fun, great, but go look at cities where bikes have taken the place of vehicles, they fuck up commuting for pedestrians.
I don’t want to walk on the sidewalk. I want to walk in the middle of the street without having to worry about someone running me over with their bike.
Also tons of poor bikers that can’t keep up with regular traffic feel it’s a good to ride on the sidewalk
I doubt “no one” does. You may see a majority of bikers using the bike lanes, but anytime there’s a sidewalk and the biker feels like they can’t keep up with the flow of traffic in that lane they move to the sidewalk.
I hope you enjoy your biking, this mostly idealism on my part. I am actually a bigger supporter of increasing resources and city infrastructure to pedestrians rather than focusing on what to do with bikes and cars. Just give me a place where they aren’t around me.
This is such a weird take living in a city with a proper infrastructure for bikes and pedestrians. I mostly use my bike to get to the parks in the city centre to hang out with my friends in summer, I'd much rather spend 20 minutes riding my bike than walking for an hour so I can spend more time with them. Bikes don't really get in the way of pedestrians since people know how to behave on public roads and bikes stay on their own lanes. I guess it's a cultural thing, but the culture needs the infrastructure to develop itself.
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New neighbourhoods in outer/suburban districts typically have well separated bike lanes for precisely the reason that mainline road traffic is often 18-wheelers for days.
I'm imagining a hilly city with raised bike lanes that go over roads and such. Would be so cool and would mitigate the hilliness
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Bikes are better than cars, but fuck them as well. Walk or get on the train.
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Bikes suck. Learn to use your feet.
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Exactly, another tool to make us feel like we need to be getting places quicker than our own bodies can provide.
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I mean yeah fuck busses, trains are cool for very obvious reasons.
Like I said walk or take the train. But since that’s not an option for most people we’re forced into all these other awful modes of transportation, including bikes.
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Bikes are mostly single use forms of transportation. Trains move large parts of the population and if we actually did city planning correctly you wouldn’t need a bike to get to and from work. You wanna ride it for fun, great, but go look at cities where bikes have taken the place of vehicles, they fuck up commuting for pedestrians.
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I do, they suck and they get in my way.
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I don’t want to walk on the sidewalk. I want to walk in the middle of the street without having to worry about someone running me over with their bike.
Also tons of poor bikers that can’t keep up with regular traffic feel it’s a good to ride on the sidewalk
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I doubt “no one” does. You may see a majority of bikers using the bike lanes, but anytime there’s a sidewalk and the biker feels like they can’t keep up with the flow of traffic in that lane they move to the sidewalk.
I hope you enjoy your biking, this mostly idealism on my part. I am actually a bigger supporter of increasing resources and city infrastructure to pedestrians rather than focusing on what to do with bikes and cars. Just give me a place where they aren’t around me.
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This is such a weird take living in a city with a proper infrastructure for bikes and pedestrians. I mostly use my bike to get to the parks in the city centre to hang out with my friends in summer, I'd much rather spend 20 minutes riding my bike than walking for an hour so I can spend more time with them. Bikes don't really get in the way of pedestrians since people know how to behave on public roads and bikes stay on their own lanes. I guess it's a cultural thing, but the culture needs the infrastructure to develop itself.
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