> What happens when the main road (with parallel bike path) intersects a
> minor side road? That sort of crossing is the main site of danger where
> even if priority is theoretically given to the path, cars leaving the
> main road will still often cut across without paying attention.
It depends, I like it best when the crossing is simultaneously a speed
bump for cars, is in red and with big markings indicating priority for
the cycle path.
> That's a widely held delusion (IMO), fostered by the politically
> acceptable excuse that "I would love to ride a bicycle, if only they
> would build more paths".
Maybe bike paths are really death traps, but I can tell you that I
feel much, much safer here than I did in Birmingham. And while I may
suffer from delusions about my safety, I cycle a lot more here.
Let me give you one example of what I hated about cycle riding in
England. Going to uni via the shortest route, I'd cycle along a road
with cars parked, like 100 m no cars parked, then two parked, then 30
m no parked cars and so forth for a few kilometres. Guess what every
time I got to one of those parked cars, I essentially was expected to
stop and wait until the traffic had passed, maybe not everybody
expected that, but the lady who nearly knocked me off my bike told me
so to my face. And getting off the bike every 50 m to walk a few steps
across the pavement, or waiting 5 minutes for a break in the
traffic ... well, I might as well walk.
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