Originally Posted by
FBinNY
I don't have any issues with continuing the ban (where alternatives exist) on freeway bicycling even on shoulders, because drivers on those roads expect free, unfettered lanes, and experience shows that even the shoulder isn't safe based on the large number of stranded cars and police officers that are hit while on the shoulder.
It happens; large numbers? how large?
What "experience" indicates that there are "large numbers" of shoulder collisions that justify prohibition of bicycles on otherwise excellent freeway/limited highway shoulders for cycling?
My experience bike commuting in Oregon on I-80N shoulders (now designated I-84) in1979-80 was problem free, except for the dang wind.