Originally Posted by Horse

Thing is, the vast majority of our recent bike facilities appear to have nothing to do with effective transportation. What they've been doing is they've been taking wide roads that didn't need bike paths, and replacing them with narrow ones where you have no choice to take the lane, and they've been adding a segregated multi user facility next to it, so you're essentially riding on the sidewalk with stops every time it crosses any street. Also these segregated facilities don't get plowed, so they're useless for a good part of the year - now inclusively. Oh, but the designers were considerate enough to provide the occasional parking lots so people can go ride their bikes...


So yeah, seeing this progression from the old bike facilities to the new ones, well we still have a hybrid system here, but it looks like they're heading in a direction to get bikes off the roads, or at least to make using the roads less attractive and kinda forcing the alternative onto users. The horrible MUPs they've been installing are sure to stay for several decades, and oh you'd swear the people who though these up were on drugs... Obviously, having an anti-cyclist mayoress doesn't help at all. I recall a few months ago she mentioned something about banning bikes off from boulevards... Slippery slope.