Originally Posted by
lil brown bat
- Bike lanes and bike paths are not the solution, for reasons that we probably all understand (but in short, if you can't/won't control double-parkers, you don't have a bike lane, and if you can't/won't prevent people from lunging out of parking spaces, driveways and side streets four feet into traffic before they look, a bike lane won't work). .
lil brown- I respectfully disagree and without sending us into the kind of mindless diatribes and endless bickering that occurs in the A&S forum hopefully I can at least say that my amendment to your statement would be "Bike lanes and bike paths are
only a part of the solution."
Read my post above comparing NYC's changes in infrastructure over the years to Boston's lack of change. NYC is becoming an amazingly great cycling city and a big part of that change is due to bike lanes and bike paths. Watch the video clip of how I use/don't use the bike lane. In any urban environment lanes get blocked by double parkers, work vans, buses etc. you just change lanes. I don't understand the misconception that a bike lane is like a strip of fly paper that bike tires must adhere to and never deviate from when necessary. That is not how the majority of cyclists in NYC are using bike lanes from my experience.
Other than that I'm with you on every other point you make in your post.