Originally Posted by
Bekologist
Nobody in bicycling advocacy and concerned about bicycling for transportation fits your stereotype of wanting one size fits all solutions of "cheap and poorly designed north american bike sidewalks".
I guess the online conversations with Scott Batson (PBOT transportation engineer) were in my imagination. In PDX, construction of bike lanes has ground to a virtual halt because the city is scrimping every penny of its depleted transportation budget so that it can implement the next hundred meters of cycle track. Meanwhile thousands of cyclists ride in traffic on heavily used bike routes that could be sharrowed or striped for a pittance.
what shallow and saccharine hyperbole about how people that advocate for varying degrees of traffic separation consider traffic fatalities. I'm surprised you've even been able to convince yourself.
Bike boxes have already claimed one victim in PDX.
And when it comes to mixing zones I agree completely with Hembrow. The point of infrastructure should be to mitigate conflict, not create it.