Originally Posted by
spare_wheel
And when it comes to mixing zones I agree completely with Hembrow. The point of infrastructure should be to mitigate conflict, not create it.
So, you're actually on the Hembrow plan of robust bike traffic separation. You want the city of Portland to spend much, much more building quality, separated path networks of the kind Hembrow lobbies for.
Originally Posted by David Hembrow
For a high level of cycling everywhere, there must be good quality infrastructure everywhere that there are cars and it must be a very fine grid and have a very high quality level. This is what makes cycling accessible to everyone.
This contradicts your aim of bicyclists sharing the lane a lot of the time.
Yet, paradoxically, at the same time you think mixing zones on plain jane american bikelanes
aren't intended to mitigate intersection conflicts......one wild and wacky position after another that defies reason and logic!