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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
I work on 8th street. The city spent a lot of money building an incredibly nice bike lane extending the the entire way down 7th street, and most definitely has increased traffic delays. I didn't really have a problem with this originally, I still routinely almost get hit by bikes while walking on the sidewalk between 4th and 6th avenue when there's a goddamn bike lane one street over. If they aren't on the sidewalk, they are weaving in and out of traffic at red lights, completely abandoning the rules of the road.
Meanwhile, I can count on one hand the bikes on the multi-million dollar bike lake, one block over. I can't speak for all the bike lanes that have been added, but the one on 8th street is an epic failure and speaks to the complete hypocrisy of a decent chunk in the cyclists in this city. Many of the people in the surrounding office buildings and commercial establishments have made multiple complaints to the city about the cyclists on 7th avenue, and have asked them to simply enforce the law. Nothing has been done, not so much as sending out an officer once to write some tickets.
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Do you mean 7th street? and not sure what you mean about cyclists on 7th ave, that's the LRT road...
anyway, if you are talking about the original cycle track on 7th st, and you think you can count the cyclists on one hand I suggest you try opening both your eyes. I ride it every day, and most days there are at least a few other cyclists at the same time as me. Ignoring anecdotes, you can look at the data:
http://www.eco-public.com/public2/?id=100017181
even yesterday, in the snow, over 400 trips were made. A few more than you can count on one hand.
The only time I've ever seen minor traffic issues is when cars park in the no parking zones and create bottlenecks. I've never seen 1 block of grid lock. It has absolutely not made traffic worse.
As for your argument of poor cyclist behaviors, I've seen cars driving in the cycle track, one even the wrong way to avoid having to go around the block. I've see vehicles turn across the double red light. I've seen them fail to yield to cyclists as they exit parkades, I've seen left turns made far after the light turns red on 4th. I've seen pedestrians walk against a red light while looking at their phone, and basically daily they use the cycle track to J-walk as it is seen as a safe island and shortens the J-walknig distance.
The sooner you realize it is PEOPLE who are horrible, and not one subset using one mode of transit, the sooner we can move on from this ridiculous part of the argument.