10-23-2017, 09:40 PM
(10-23-2017, 09:16 PM)timc Wrote:(10-22-2017, 06:57 PM)jamincan Wrote: I personally prefer the bike lanes, but to each their own.
I'm also in this camp. But like you say, to each their own.
I also prefer bike lanes in some (many) cases, mostly because our region's MUTs are so poorly implemented (well designed MUTs can be equally suitable for racing cyclists as bike lanes, I have personally experienced this in the Netherlands), but for the moment, it is what we have.
But I still understand that for a pro-cycling policy, that the vast majority of users (66% or more) as determined in empirical studies, are more comfortable riding on a MUT instead of with traffic. So that is the type of infrastructure we should be building in order to help normalize cycling and make it accessible to the majority of people.
Local conditions matter as well, but in a location like this, it's clearly the wrong infrastructure if we are seeking to increase cycling.