Originally Posted by
Bekologist
would you make up your mind already? Are they woonerven, or do they need bikelanes? My, your position on arterial roads is chronically muddled.
imo, it is so called advocates who would rather focus on meandering greenways instead of painting nice wide buffered bike lanes on busy commercial roads that are muddled.
to quote rex burkholder (current metro councillor and bike transportation alliance founder):
http://bikeportland.org/2012/03/09/c...responds-68619
"Its [sic] a wonder what will happen when you actually make cycling a priority rather than “accommodating” cyclists. In Portland, we have unfortunately stalled and the City, with the acquiescence of the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, are pursuing a separate but unequal strategy of designating side streets as bike boulevards...
... When I helped found and led the BTA in the 1990s, I thought it would take twenty years to get to Dutch cycling levels and preached patience. Well, twenty years have passed and we’re not even close. For example, if I want to ride from downtown to the Hawthorne district, I lose my lane and am encouraged to detour a half mile out of direction to a bike boulevard..
The simple act of turning four lane roads into three lanes with bike lanes would improve travel for everyone, even car traffic but is seen as an insufferable loss by the traffic engineers and the motorists. This is why Minneapolis took our “Best Cycling City” crown away. The Minne Mayor is committed to using the ROW better, not kowtowing to old paradigms."