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Old 05-24-07, 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
i'd totally disagree with your assessment that bike lanes are designed to remove bikes from roadway traffic flow.
I'm confused. You once wrote the following about vehicular cycling:

Originally Posted by Bekologist
Why hasn't VC caught on, Diane? Because riders, as a group, don't want to ride in high speed traffic. cities with better planning for bicycling via infrastructure have more cyclists on the roads.
If bike lanes are not perceived to remove cyclists from the flow of traffic, which you say they don't want to ride in, then what makes the striped design better than the unstriped wide outside lanes of equal passing space that vehicular cyclists promote?
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