The designed-in dis-functionality of bike lanes

Ana gets hit from Rick Langlois on Vimeo.

Better folks than I explain it here.

This what you get when you ask for segregation from the road system... a false sense of security and a really heightened risk of serious injury. This collision is 100% the fault of the design, and was 99.9% preventable had the bicyclist been integrated with the slow-moving traffic.

Test your Safety Perceptions

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Test your Safety Perceptions

Occupy the Lane

The League of American Bicyclists has just put out a call to send them money to "save cycling". This is the same organization that rates cities as being 'bicycle friendly' or not based upon what level of bicycle segregation they endorse (the higher the better).

There are alternatives.

Bicycling is Better » Occupy the Lane

Far to the right conditioning.

Future Bicycle Facilities Advocates undergoing subservience training.

Data

Bike lanes continue to confuse drivers, riders in Naptown

A report from Indianapolis. The issues are always the same, and the solutions never work. Illogical, fear-based, segregationist designs don't work. But they do cost money and add injury risk.

Bike lanes continue to confuse drivers, riders

A reminder.

The SELZ Case – Revisited | Steve Magas Ohio's Bike Lawyer

League of American Bicyclists president Andy Clarke recently told the Oklahoma Bike Summit, in response to a question about LAB's active oppostion* to Reed Bates' 'Impeding Traffic' citations/conviction in Texas: “His case was a disaster waiting to happen. It would not have set a precedent. He was not a sympathetic character.”

It's nice to know which side of "right" Clarke and the LAB Board stand on.

As Mr. Bates said in opposition to the so-called Safe Passing Law (which probably would have decreased the passing space allocated to cyclists while simultaneously removing bicyclists from the full legal category of vehicle operators): "We need better advocates."

The sport at its best.

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Coming to Dallas very soon. For the annual $30K cost of one mile of bike lane*, 3,000 real-cyclists can be created.


* Paint and sweeping, but not including the officially hidden actual infrastructure cost of $1,000,000 a mile.