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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface

I'm sure there's factors I'm not aware of, but as a former pretty heavy user of the bike lanes before working from home and never getting off my butt, I found bike lanes like the one on 2nd street SW far preferable to 12th avenue. It's a quieter setting, less cars, less noise, less exhaust, less pedestrians. On 12th avenue I feel like I'm at high alert the entire time, where as 2nd street is more relaxing.

There were former plans to have a bike lane along 13th avenue that I think got killed because of the loss of parking, but that would have been pretty good.

One problem is that stop signs are really costly for cyclists compared to a car. Ideally, you take a quieter street and reorient the stop signs so bikes can cruise through. In Bridgeland they reoriented all the stop signs on 2nd ave so its far more of a through route. It's great for biking now rather than the busier 1st ave, so not living on 2nd ave, I've found it great. I'm sure the people living there hate it, as cars definitely speed more now, and there's more traffic.

The solution for side streets like that is to just block car access with boulevards blocking the though movement or traffic circles.