bike lane? did you mean painted gutter?
Oh the I’ll just be 5 mins carpark
I hate having to go around cars in the goddamn bike lane.
I hate going around city infrastructure (like temporary signs) in they bike lane
The only thing I want to go around in a bike lane is a slower moving bike
It’s nothing to do with individual choice and everything to do with design.
in finland we have bike lanes everywhere, still these spandex people be cycling on the roads.
That just means the bike lanes aren’t good enough. No cyclist rides on the road to annoy drivers. No cyclist enjoys sharing the road with cars. They use the road cause the bike lanes are full of obstacles, dangers, pot holes, choke points, additional forced stops and detours you’ll never see from inside a car.
nope, they are well designed and maintained. I know because I rode them for two years on my ebike. I think they use roads because they want to go faster, so they block traffic on 60 km/h zone by going 40, which is way too fast for bike lanes.
So the bike lanes aren’t good for the speed they ride at.
But the roads, which were built from everyone’s tax money, for everyone to use, are.the bike paths are perfectly good for even 30 km/h in my experience, I don’t go driving in the airport because I feel like I need to go 320 km/h…(but I absolutely would if that was possible)
I get cyclists using the road. Here where i live there is no infrastructure for bycles. I have been there and it’s hideous to cooperate with cars on the road. the only problem i have with cyclists are the ones that think thar bikes don’t have to abide to circulation laws. For example, in a country that drives on the right. I had a cyclist behind me, i turn on the indicator to turn right and as i turn the cyclist overtakes me from the right and then acts pissed because i almost put them under. Let’s not speak about the ones that take one way roads from the wrong sides to take a shortcut.
The only place on my commute where I interact with left turning vehicles (we keep left, so it’s the same as your right turning ones) we have a bike lane which strongly implies bikes going straight ahead have right of way
When it’s a car turning, I make sure I’m not going to be in the intersection until they are already turning
When it’s a public bus, they wait for me before moving. I think our bus drivers get some instruction on how to act around bikes
Isn’t that normal? In Netherlands the cyclist has right of way in most cases. The vehicle is supposed to wait and let the cyclist pass on the right
Paint is not infrastructure. Give us something that actually protects us, and we’ll use it.
Stop signs, traffic lights, yield signs…
What’s your point?
Sandwiches
In Germany, we have the wonderful Radwegebenutzungspflicht (obligation to use cycle paths). Unfortunately most drivers don’t realize this only applies to about 10% of Germany’s cycle paths, which are marked by a blue sign. They think the obligation applies to all cycle paths, and so they keep giving cyclists shit.
You want to see them get really mad? Suggest that if they want to share the road they should also pay registration.
(Not something I believe, we just had an avid cyclist at work who was enormous fun to shit stir.
More expensive the bike, less chance it’s driven in a bike lane and higher the seat.
