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I've known enough people that have gotten injured or died from cars that I am also against them. However, I go the other way and heavily encourage building more, separate bike paths. Fuck cars.
As always, paint is not infrastructure. What we need is bike lanes that are actually, physically separated from the road. While I've seen a pretty optimistic share of drivers not drive in the bike lane, there's still an unfortunately high amount of people who gladly will.
Completely agree. Also, sharing the road with cars just sucks on general: noise, smell, sudden gusts of wind.
I really love what the Minneapolis area did. There used to be railroad lines all over the place around here, and many of them have been turned into walking/bike highways, connecting a vast network of off-street (separated by grass) paved paths. I can ride from my house in the burbs to the co-op in the local town and be on streets only through my neighborhood to get to the nearest rail-trail. It's only 8 miles to the store, but still - entirely off street, dedicated walking/bike paths.
It's one of the things I love most about this place, and coming from the Philadelphia region, it's a little awe-inspiring.
Yeah. I always try to check when crossing bike lanes but we need the ones that have a physical barrier b/t the roadway and bike lanes.