> ”Painted bike lanes (and crosswalks, tbqh) are death traps and overall fucking terrible fig-leaf concepts. Barriers (and over/underpasses, etc) or nothing.”
Painted, unprotected lanes aren’t ideal, but they’re better than nothing if they encourage more people to cycle.
There’s plenty of examples where I live where painted cycle lanes have later been upgraded to proper protected cycle lanes (with kerbs, cycle-specific signals at intersections, etc) once they showed the demand was there.
I’d also argue that simply having more cyclists in an area makes cyclists safer because car drivers become more aware of them.
Painted, unprotected lanes aren’t ideal, but they’re better than nothing if they encourage more people to cycle.
There’s plenty of examples where I live where painted cycle lanes have later been upgraded to proper protected cycle lanes (with kerbs, cycle-specific signals at intersections, etc) once they showed the demand was there.
I’d also argue that simply having more cyclists in an area makes cyclists safer because car drivers become more aware of them.