can never quite be as enthusiastic about bike advocacy as I would like because in the USA it's mainly about "what if we all had personal vehicles and wide roads...but like, smaller"pic.twitter.com/dp8E3MDIN4
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We need to get serious about calming traffic, narrowing streets, and making shared traffic possible--rigid segregation by mode, with 5 feet here for peds, 5 here for bikes, 10 here for cars, 10 here for buses, repeat on the other side, only makes that goal harder to achieve
those two are not exclusively different means of achieving the same goal. in fact, context-sensitive designs are often going to result in different street designs for different contexts.
Yes, mode segregation is pretty much necessary for major arterials (2+ car lanes in each direction as a rough definition), but the bulk of roads (including the leading pic in thread) don't fit that description
Once you hit a design speed above 25 mph and/or volumes of greater than 1,000 daily vehicles, people prefer separation like the original photo for sustainable safety efforts.
1,000 daily vehicles is slightly over 1 car per minute for just 12 hours, or less than 1 per minute for 24 that is not a busy road! as for design speed, my whole point is we design way too many streets for >25mph that absolutely don't need it
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