Originally Posted by Bekologist
I still am finding it very interesting the vc idealogues are suggesting the shoulders of roads as preferable to on-road bike infrastructure. how are bikes riding on shoulders going to legitimize bicyclists' road rights on high speed arterials, versus travel lanes for bikes on the main road surface?
very interesting....
You walked right into that one Bek. Read carefully:
Originally Posted by John Forester
I have never argued that the absence of bike-lane stripes strengthens the view that cyclists are legitimate roadway users. After all, there is no legal question about cyclists' legitimacy as roadway users. What I do argue is that the bike-lane stripe weakens that view by strongly suggesting that cyclists' right extends only to the bike lane. Of course, if one is so imbued with the cyclist-inferiority superstition, one might not understand this.
Therefore the shoulder stripe
does not weaken that view [that cyclists are legitimate roadway users] by strongly suggesting that cyclists' right extends only to the shoulder area.
If you don’t get the crystal clear logic in this you must be imbued with the cyclist-inferiority superstition ether that or you need another beer and repeat until it makes sense.
