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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
I want biking infrastructure, and yet I also want biking infrastructure that doesn't completely screw up traffic in the core because both are important, yet it seems like the only way we can build cycling infrastructure is if the proposal has "spite car commuters" as a principle design element.
Cowboy89 nailed it. The reason so many people get up in arms over this stuff is because it doesn't fit the lifestyle that they want. Lifestyle is everything.
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Can you give some example(s) of the bolded? Beyond the inevitable loss of some % of pavement of course...
It seems to me the principle design element is that drivers can't be otherwise inconvenienced, at all. Driveways cut through bike lanes everywhere, and intersections - the conflict zone where cyclists could actually use a bit more protection - are generally still a bit of a free for all.
A rare example I can think of is 5 St SB lost the ability to turn left on red onto EB 12 Ave ( a pretty rare scenario where 2 cycle tracks meet on two roads that happen to be 1-way).