Originally Posted by Bekologist
sorry steve, but the design paradigm of wide outside lanes alone will still leave significant numbers of cyclists on the sidewalks and off the roads.
a WOL on a high speed road may be 'good enough' for the stawart VC, but still encourages bicycle/ vehicle conflict, harassment from drivers.
A study in Florida and a study in Texas (I think) showed this to be the case. WOLs prompted cyclists to take a position either off the road (on the sidewalk) or hugging the gutter. Bike lanes tended to put the cyclists further to the left and off the sidewalk.
WOLs give vehicular cyclists more freedom to operate in traffic. That's its singular advantage over bike lanes. It makes non-vehicular cyclists ride more dangerously by forcing them closer to the curb or onto the sidewalk.
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