Kevin McMurtrie <mcmurtri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>What would make me feel safe is roads designed for use by cars and
>bicycles together - bike lanes, no multi-turn lanes without a merging
>area, and traffic light sensors that work for bicycles. Lots of cities
>due their duty of installing bike lanes but they abruptly terminate
>whenever they're not convenient. It's no help at all. My other
>favorite is designating unmaintained side streets with a stop sign at
>every block as a bike route so that the good streets don't have to be
>bicycle safe.
Agree about the abruptly terminating bike lanes.
The US is infested with stop signs, more than any other country I've
driven or cycled in.
I don't think we'll be getting rid of them soon. So perhaps a partial
solution would be to have two kinds of "stop" signs. One would mean
cars must stop, but bikes can just yield, the other, placed at blind
intersections, would mean "all stop". Of course this is the way most
savvy bicyclists ride now. It would just formalize it, and recognize
that for the most part stop signs are just a crude traffic calming
device--perhaps necessary for 2 ton cars but not needed for bicyclists
who usually only harm themselves when they hit something or they get
hit.
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