• frostbiker
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    1 year ago

    A roundabout does not protect people riding bicycles. This intersection is designed to make them more visible to drivers.

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        1 year ago

        Can you draw that? How does it work when a bicycle wants to go straight and a car wants to turn right? Either you would need underpasses/overpasses or accept that cars and bikes will constantly cross each other, which in practice means the bikes will be in danger.

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            They put in protected bike lanes on big street near me. Bike lane-parking-traffic. So many ‘bike allies ‘ saying “it makes me more nervous to drive, I have to look for the cyclists now”.

            In a large part of the US at least, it’s never going to be default behavior.

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              1 year ago

              It makes me nervous as a cyclist, too. I think I’m safer taking the lane and navigating like a car than crossing a car’s path from a segregated right of way.

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        You’re assuming that most people are decent law abiding drivers and won’t be impatient and simply use that as another lane or parking spot.

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      1 year ago

      You could still put an obstruction in the middle to prevent t-bone collisions while keeping the bike and pedestrian spaces.