Originally Posted by CdCf
You don't seem to get it.
Bike paths are fine - as long as you're free to choose whether to use them or use the road. Here, the law says we HAVE TO use them when provided, so that's why I don't like them. Is that so hard to understand?
CdCf, you are not the first European cyclist I've seen on these forums to point this out.
In the US, we still have a choice about where to ride, but that choice is being threatened by laws telling us to use a path where provided.
I don't care how many paths or bike lanes are built, as long as my rights not to use them aren't threatened.
No bike lane advocate in their right mind would ever
force me to use a bike lane, anymore than I would force them not to use the bike lane. But what so many bike lane advocates ignore is that cyclists are too often required to use bike lanes and paths against our will.