Originally Posted by
JohnBrooking
Donna, how do you like them? What do you think about the concerns Steve raises?
I hear so often how nice it is to bike in Europe with all their bike lanes, and why can't we have that here? I often feel I have to explain about bike lanes being awkard and often misleading in intersections, and the next mental step is often to having separate light phases like in Europe. So I wondered why we don't see them so much here, and if anyone had tried them.
Perhaps one answer is the reluctance of the strict VC crowd and their leader John Forester to even attempt to accept anything like a bike lane, or as advanced as a system of well interconnected bike paths that surpasses even a network of auto streets, such as
what I experienced in Oulu Finland.
Meanwhile,
John Forester supports groups such as the American Dream Coalition, which has stated in it's mission statement that nothing should delay motorists and that they should be able to travel and the "most efficient speed of 60 MPH."