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Originally Posted by fusili
Some people. She should have to retake her drivers test and learn that bicycles are vehicles and are supposed to ride in the street. Would she say the same thing to a motorcycle? I would have flipped her the bird.
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Yeah, unfortunately people forget what they learned in driver's ed, and fall back on intuition. Most people don't expect vehicles moving at 20km/h mixed with vehicles doing 2-3-4-5 times that. A motorcycle can easily keep up with traffic, but there's a reason little Johnny can't take his Power Wheels out on the Deerfoot.
Which is why bike lanes really need to be separate, unless we're talking very slow and/or low volume roads. We figured this out decades ago with pedestrians, hence we have sidewalks. Why we don't automatically build similar infrastructure for bicycles is beyond me.
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