05-21-2018, 07:23 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-21-2018, 07:24 AM by danbrotherston.)
(05-21-2018, 07:06 AM)jamincan Wrote: To be honest, my preferred design is the roll curb for the reasons given, provided that cars respect the bike lane. They use roll curbs in Copenhagen for the most part, but drivers respect the cycling lanes. If they have to do a period of intense enforcement to get a cultural shift, that's preferable to me. If they spent a month towing every vehicle that parked on the bike lane, and I mean every vehicle, the behaviour would almost certainly come to a complete stop. As for bollards, why flexible ones? Why not permanent ones spaced enough for cyclists to get through, but not vehicles? If someone has to cross them for some reason, make them so that they removable, but not without getting some tools out first.
Flex bollards are probably a little safer...but the key point is that they're removable, so that snow can be cleared from the bike lane by the road plow. So yes, removable bollards like they use in DTK would also work--they're just much more expensive...of course, the BIA is more likely to support that type of bollard anyway.
I think the parking issue will need continual enforcement for the rest of eternity...okay, maybe not that long, but it's not going to be one period, as soon as it is left without continual enforcement, the problem will come back. I really don't think there will be a cultural shift. Even in the Netherlands, where bikes are King and have been for many decades...drivers still park in painted bike lanes.
Out of curiosity, why do you prefer the roll curb?