Anyway, some of it is normative, but they just seem to have a system that is lightyears better, and

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I think it s good that NYC is building bike lanes, but we re really doing it all wrong. All this nonsense where motorists and inept cops park in the lanes could be solved by making the lanes physically contiguous with the sidewalk. It might even help stem the babbling of IQ-of-80 advocates writing in to NYC tabloids about dangerous cyclists. Contiguity with the sidewalk is what they do with great success in Cologne, a rather auto-centric city by some measures. If pedestrians walk in the bike lane, they can expect to be yelled at.
Anyway, some of it is normative, but they just seem to have a system that is lightyears better, and contiguity with the sidewalk seems like a key component. A moron motorist can t see the space and go, hey, I m just re-appropriating road space.
I have to disagree with the Cologne style bike lanes. They were on and in the middle of sidewalks, bikes were going only slightly faster than the peds. While very few cars passed on the streets. (Besides being a thousand or so years older, Cologne is like Stamford or Darien, the land of bankers) I was amazed that the lanes were placed there, they seemed good for no one.
On that same trip I got to ride in and walk next to lanes alongside the sidewalks in Copenhagen. They were raised from the road way, and no ped dared step in them because everyone there respected the space allotted.
@twowheel:disqus : Usually the shoulder of the sidewalk facing the street in Cologne is reserved for parking (which is odd) and/or biking. This is probably the reason for the impression that they re in the middle of sidewalks. discount hotel san antonio It s true, but they re on the edge of the part of the sidewalk useful discount hotel san antonio to pedestrians. My only complaint about Cologne is that they aren t very well-delineated, but it doesn t seem to stop them from being used and respected. The contiguity feature makes them worlds safer.