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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Interesting, because I was paying attention too! There were 5 of us in the cycle track, and surprisingly, everyone stopped appropriately at the 4 way. Everyone looked to be regular commuters, all males 30-40(as Cliff Fletcher put it..." primarily from a population of aggressive and confident males amped up on adrenaline."- we were not.) So perhaps it is the law abiding cyclists who are less fearless that use the cycle track, and any argument to get rid of them on the basis that other cyclists behave like a-holes isn't a sound argument at all. Collective punishment, and all that.
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I don't think you and I are talking about the same
Thing.
I'm not talking about the bike lane on 7th. I have no problems with this and generally use it correctly and respectfully. I'm talking about one street over in 8th. People are flying down this all the time on bikes being complete #######s with no regard for the law instead of using the route that is designed for them just one block over.
How can anyone expect public opinion to be in favour of building more
Of these bike lanes, when only some of the cyclists bother to use them? For every person like you who use it properly, there's another jerk cherry picking their route home. You arent going to convince many people bike lanes are a good thing when they are increasing their commute time and they are still having to deal with the same BS from cyclists they did before the bike lanes came into existence.