• blazera@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Separated bike lane is the only way. Anything else is knowingly getting bikers killed.

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      3 months ago

      Nuh uh. My city painted pictures of bicycles on the asphalt in the right lane of a busy road, so now drivers know it’s also for bikes and it’s suuuuuper safe.

      That’s what Big Bike Lane doesn’t want you to know. You don’t need to build a bunch of infrastructure to separate cyclists and cars - you just need paint! Especially the new kind that wears off the road in less than a year and doesn’t get repainted.

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      3 months ago

      Come to my city, Edmonton, Alberta. Vehicles regularly drive on dedicated bike lanes. Poor signage, barricades and dumb drivers.

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        3 months ago

        Separated bike lanes. Not by a line of paint or some curb at the intersection but by several feet of physical barrier. Raised planters work well and are attractive but putting the parking strip between traffic and bikes (as long as the parked cars can’t open doors into the lane) also gets the job done.

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          3 months ago

          Yep, we have all of the above. I still see bewildered drivers in the bike lanes every week.

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            3 months ago

            I’d say the police could be useful for once and crack down but we know that won’t happen.