Originally Posted by
kickstart
I mostly agree except for limiting segregated ("separate facilities") only to where there are long stretches of high speed road. An example would be how King county is slowly but surely progressing towards connecting the regions network of MUTs, essentially making a cyclist and pedestrian limited access freeway system.
But yes, give me lots of bike lanes please, they don't even need to be "safer", just so I don't need to constantly compete for space on higher speed differential roads.
I agree with you and would have added what you said but I felt I had already been too wordy. I rather like bike paths that are built like a freeway (minimal intersections). The problem I have with bike paths is when they are built as side paths on streets with lots of intersections and driveways. I get weary of keeping my head on a swivel checking for overtaking vehicles from every angle knowing that I a out of their normal scan area for traffic.