I am very jealous. The bike is a fantastic tool for short commutes, but so many people decide not to use it because of safety concerns when riding alongside cars.
We need to see more roads dedicated to cycling. In San Francisco there is a large cycling community, but there are very few dedicated cycling thoroughfares, in fact I can recall only one and it is imperfect (but better than nothing) along the panhandle. We recently had two deaths in SF from bicycle and car mixed use roads.
What every city needs is dediccated networks of biking roads that are interconnected to get across the entire town that do not need to share the road with multi-ton vehicles that can so easily harm very vulnerable cyclists.
Looks like horrible choices in road surface for bikes with thin, hard wheels. (you slip on gravel and the stones will shake you through, while the cobblestone separating both lanes is plain dangerous when wet. For good measure they put some coarse gravel to the road side, so every now and than even the city bikes can jerk over some stones. I already see one of those on the track.)
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 17.0 ms ] threadWe need to see more roads dedicated to cycling. In San Francisco there is a large cycling community, but there are very few dedicated cycling thoroughfares, in fact I can recall only one and it is imperfect (but better than nothing) along the panhandle. We recently had two deaths in SF from bicycle and car mixed use roads.
What every city needs is dediccated networks of biking roads that are interconnected to get across the entire town that do not need to share the road with multi-ton vehicles that can so easily harm very vulnerable cyclists.
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/30/intercity-cyc...