No bike lane means you can use center of the traffic lane. Its almost safer sometimes then the unprotected bike lane…
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tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a biker with no bike lanes I detest them both
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Good info, but I’m not trying to make enemies of drivers either. I call myself a “bike ambassador” and I try hard to be respectful of everybody on the road.
Honestly, since moving to my current spot I bike so much less because it’s perilous. Several bikers die every year in my area due to car/truck/dump truck crashes. Maybe this is my cue to move to Portland. Or Montreal.
peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I dont want to make enemies either, but at least in pa thats just the law, bicycles must be on the street, and if no bike lane is there they use the regular lane. They can stay centered, and a car needs 4 feet of clearance to legally pass them.
Dont get me wrong, most drivers dont know that and are assholes so i stay to the side whens its safe, etc etc.
Dookieman12@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Drivers didn’t spend over 50 years secretly buying and dismantling public transit, forming zoning boards, and lobbying Congress to build car-centric infrastructure using tax dollars from everyone, including non-drivers; billionaires and corporations did those things. If you’re going to detest people, detest them. The people driving are just doing their best to get by using the only system they’ve ever known.
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh I know it, and it’s not the drivers I hate… Unless they are coal rolling and/or trying to run me off the road, which is way more common than you would think. Car companies and lobbyists started it, but some people where I live seem to want to end it/me.
I hate that the state DOT won’t just figure out how to put in bike lanes. It’s the antithesis of their MO, which seems to be highway widening. That makes me and my agenda extra threatening, I guess.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I’d just like to chime in and say it is the drivers I hate, they actively make society worse for everyone with their individualistic approach