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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The bike lanes are there because two kids died on the sidewalk. The price of car infrastructure is now internalized to car users.[/quote]

So the kids died on the sidewalk, which is separated from the travel lanes by a 10” tall curb, and the solution is to move kids down onto the roadway itself, and separate them from the travel lanes by flexible plastic sticks.

This is literally “cyclist logic” at work.

[i]“Oh the road is too dangerous for bikes? Let’s put the bikes directly IN the road then. The deaths that will occur will provide us with the statistics we need to advocate a ban on cars.” [/i] [/quote]

Now the sidewalk is safer. The kids died on there when they fell into the road. The curb is no protection. The buffer now is.[/quote]

So what happens when someone in the bike lanes falls or crashes and goes out into the road? Those silly plastic sticks aren’t going to help keep them in the bike lane. They’ll go skidding out into the travel lanes and get run over and be just as dead as the kid who rode his bike off the sidewalk in front of a car.

What now?

Oh wait - I know! You’ll have the county take ANOTHER lane to provide a “buffer” for cyclists who fall or crash in the bike lanes.

So on a former 3 lane road, it’ll now be 1 lane for bikes, one lane as a buffer, and one lane for cars.

Sounds exactly like a Montgomery County solution. [/quote]

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