A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by maxerickson on Monday June 23, 2014 @10:02AM (#7931962)

I don't understand what issue you are saying you are engaged with.

I do think the people replying to you saying "You can so bike" are engaging in relatively pointless activism (for one thing, 10 miles really is plenty far to try to build into every day). But that also isn't really the issue at hand.

All the article really says is that 1 designer thinks that bike lanes that 'feel safe' will get more people using them (and then a few characteristics are explored). I sort of think that shouldn't be a controversy.

This article is about adding setbacks and curbs and bike specific signals and you are engaging in 'paint lane markings all over creation'.

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Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by bane on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:04PM (#7932674)

The discussion started by the OP

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930069

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Re:A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling Mo... by maxerickson on Monday June 23, 2014 @12:29PM (#7932809)

Where is The claim being made, and the source of all my karma shedding on this is that adding more bike lanes will get more people to ride bikes. The "Field of Dreams" argument.

The comment you link agrees with you. There's not much glassy eyed pontificating about the wonders of bike lanes in the rest of the tree either.

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