Originally Posted by
mr_bill
As am I. Even sometimes when there is a bike lane.
I ride past more car doors in a morning or afternoon than some of the “proponents” have ridden past in a lifetime.
I’ve ridden in bus/bike lanes that some of the “every lane is a bike lane” folks would NEVER ride in.
Obviously, it’s not them, it’s me.
-mr. bill
I've been a bike commuter in Minneapolis, New Orleans, San Francisco/Berkeley, and in the NH seacoast area. I also recreationally ride in the country, between cities and through a lot of urban areas, so I find the idea of a lot of absolute rules really quite funny. What works in one of those contexts is likely to be a complete disaster in another.
I know you've ridden in a far greater variety of places than I have, so I wanted to run this impression by you: The lack of anything resembling a rational street plan in the Boston area pretty much forces a person to vary their riding strategy from neighborhood to neighborhood to a degree I've never seen anywhere else in the US.