Where I’m at, they added a “bike lane” on the highway… Which is literally just the shoulder barely wide enough for a cyclist… on a very busy highway that sees lots of trucks and trailers and wide loads, in addition to people travelling at highway speeds. No divider, just a paint line.
That’s not a bike lane, that’s an accident about to happen.
We need real bike lanes, divided by something more than 2 inches of paint, to prevent traffic fatalities.
Where I’m at, they added a “bike lane” on the highway… Which is literally just the shoulder barely wide enough for a cyclist… on a very busy highway that sees lots of trucks and trailers and wide loads, in addition to people travelling at highway speeds. No divider, just a paint line.
That’s not a bike lane, that’s an accident about to happen.
We need real bike lanes, divided by something more than 2 inches of paint, to prevent traffic fatalities.
Where I’m at, we call those “murder strips”. They are all being replaced by full worthy bike lanes with hard dividers. It’s a slow process though