Sometimes I feel as if I could devote an entire blog to bike lanes that are poorly conceived, constructed, simply useless or bad in any number of other ways.
I've seen some doozies here in New York. But the worst I've seen in The Big Apple is, apparently, sane compared to some that have been constructed in other parts of the US and world.
Some of the lanes I hear about are almost comically bad because it's simply impossible to understand how they can be imagined even by someone who has never seen a bike in his or her life. When I'm in a charitable mood, I tell myself that the designers of such lanes assume that bicycles and cyclists possess extraordinary powers that mortal drivers and cars can't even dream of.
I mean, some are built as if we can pedal through steel columns or even stronger stuff. As an example, check out this gem posted on the blog of Bike Shop Hub in Tucson, Arizona:
Unfortunately, there's more where that came from--or, at least, where I found that gem. Scroll down the page I've linked and check out, in particular, the ones posted by Marlo Stimpson and David Common.
I've seen some doozies here in New York. But the worst I've seen in The Big Apple is, apparently, sane compared to some that have been constructed in other parts of the US and world.
Some of the lanes I hear about are almost comically bad because it's simply impossible to understand how they can be imagined even by someone who has never seen a bike in his or her life. When I'm in a charitable mood, I tell myself that the designers of such lanes assume that bicycles and cyclists possess extraordinary powers that mortal drivers and cars can't even dream of.
I mean, some are built as if we can pedal through steel columns or even stronger stuff. As an example, check out this gem posted on the blog of Bike Shop Hub in Tucson, Arizona:
Unfortunately, there's more where that came from--or, at least, where I found that gem. Scroll down the page I've linked and check out, in particular, the ones posted by Marlo Stimpson and David Common.
