07-29-2016, 10:06 AM
(07-29-2016, 08:41 AM)timc Wrote:(07-28-2016, 10:37 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Also, frustration of frustration, why is there a 2 meter painted buffer between the sidewalk and the bike lane, how stupid. And how stupid not to use that 2 meter painted buffer to widen both bike lanes by a meter, instead squeezing cyclists in with 70 km/h through traffic.
That can't be right, can it? But that is what the drawing shows. If I was going to put in a painted median, I would put it between the bike lane and the roadway. Maybe with some of those flexible bollards like there are east of Wissler.
Anytime I encounter these kinds of setups I just ride in the painted median. I don't know what goes through the heads of people that design the lanes this way, like a bike-pedestrian collision sucks but the difference in speed isn't anywhere close to the difference in speed (and mass) of cars and bikes.