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Old 05-19-2015, 02:45 PM   #151
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Haha! Awesome! I think the official opening of the lanes is June 20th, so you may face more construction issues for awhile.
Knowing this, I'll stick to 1st for my commute until then. I think I sketched out a couple drivers coming the other way trying to turn left. I was probably in the wrong technically going the wrong way on a street.

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Unfortunately, I think the majority of marginal bike riders see weather as the #1 factor influencing their decision to use bikes as their primary transportation.
I will admit that I fit 100% into this group. I have no plans to bike in the winter. But the goal is to have my habits changed enough that I'll default to public transit.


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Originally Posted by The Ditch View Post
Bike lanes downtown are not useful when the marginal bikers in the burbs have no safe straight forward paths to get to them.

I've seen some people try to make safe bike routes to downtown (using the city website showing paths and whatnot) and just laugh at the mess of it.
Agreed. But my assumption is that they weren't designed with marginal bikers in the burbs in mind. I would think they were more meant to target getting the people who live in the relatively near SW along Macleod/Elbow/14th/Bow/etc to stop driving...thereby freeing up room for the 'burbanites to drive!
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