Originally Posted by John Forester
What you should not do is to advocate the installation in a motoring city of bikeways suitable to a pre-motoring obsolete city, in the expectation that this will produce a cycling city. Not only will that not occur, but it will harm those cyclists who are operating in the modern city.
Who is advocating the blind application of European style bikeways to US cities? Obviously cities here are different than cities there, and not everything works and almost everything will have to be modified to some extent. But what's wrong with using their expertise for what it's worth?
What we should not do is to advocate the use of motoring specific infrastructure as a way to gain acceptance of cycling as a mode of transportation in the expectation that a show of vehicular cycling expertise by a few cyclists who bicycle for the wrong reasons will magically reduce all the barriers to bicycling for transportation to zero. Not only will that not occur, but it will harm those people who could economically benefit from cycling in the modern city.
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