Bike Lanes - Why I Don't Really Care About Them (And Neither Do Most People)
I'm just gonna say what a whole lot of other people are thinking, and I know its gonna annoy my fellow progressives but it needs to be said, we focus too much on bike lanes. If you've ever had the misfortune to sit in on a meeting of the MPO there is inevitably a presentation of something that has to do with bike lanes. I'm sick of hearing about bike lanes. I'm sick of seeing bike lanes. They take up a lot of real estate and here's a dirty little secret...the are rarely used. Seriously, they are almost always empty. In rural communities a traffic study is done to establish the amount of traffic on a given road. That is how it is determined whether or not the road gets paved. Makes sense. Why they don't do the same thing for bike lanes is beyond me. Could I use a few miles on a bike every week? Hell yes. Is it great exercise? Absolutely. Would I like to see more people use them? Actually I don't really give a shit. It just seems like we spend a lot of time, t...