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Comment on The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million.

lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Seems like they overthunk the bike lanes. I think just extra-wide sidewalks work best. If they’re heavily trafficked then they can paint lanes for bikes and pedestrians on them. In my city, the best bike paths are just giant sidewalks that can accommodate fleshy human traffic in general.

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dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Not knowing your city I can’t speak to that, but I’ve been both a cyclist and a pedestrian in those circumstances and it fucking sucks. People tend to spread out when they walk, and cyclists are typically moving fast enough that walkers are effectively stationary in comparison. So walking becomes a frustrating exercise in dodging bikes, and cycling becomes a frustrating exercise in avoiding clumps of people (along with whatever other crap is placed on the sidewalk without considering cyclists.)

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- lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  This is one I love. It’s next to the Astrodome.
  
  google.com/…/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1shD-W_pZrPipgvJzu…
  
  Granted, it usually is almost empty. I’m not even sure it was designed to be a bikepath/sidewalk originally but my god it is heavy ride down. I think it’s maintained by the city because most sidewalks are maintained by the landowner, and are thus usually almost trying to murder cyclists.
  
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