Actual infrastructure dedicated for bicycles and other mobility options would nearly eliminate the “speed difference” issue in most cases.
A nearby city is ripping up one side of their main street and finally putting a physical barrier between the cars and the bikes.
Before it was just a painted line that got completely ignored, then it was the occasional traffic cone which kept getting stolen, then they tried those plastic bollards that are just hollow plastic, which just got run over.
It only took 3 deaths that I know of and countless children being injured.
It’s great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/
Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.
In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn’t remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don’t, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.
Actual infrastructure dedicated for bicycles and other mobility options would nearly eliminate the “speed difference” issue in most cases.
A nearby city is ripping up one side of their main street and finally putting a physical barrier between the cars and the bikes.
Before it was just a painted line that got completely ignored, then it was the occasional traffic cone which kept getting stolen, then they tried those plastic bollards that are just hollow plastic, which just got run over.
It only took 3 deaths that I know of and countless children being injured.
It’s great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/
Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.
In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn’t remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don’t, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.