BICYCLE LANES ?‍♂️

[Uptight 534]

@Master Raiden Apologies, took me awhile to sit down and write a response. Yeah, I totally get you on the absolute speed argument. Relative speed does not matter when a much heavier object is going fast. We can thank Sir Isaac Newton for that one (Force = mass x acceleration). I am not a physicist, so I am not going to act like I know anything advanced about speed, reaction times, relativity, etc. because I would just be talking out of my rear-end, lol. I think you perfectly summed it up in this quote.

I think, ultimately, everyone here agrees that things going at very different speeds should be separated. Pedestrians should ideally be separated from cyclists, and cyclists should ideally be separated from cars/trucks/buses.

I am still going to disagree on "wider lanes being safer." In theory, what you said is what wide lanes are designed for, but in practice, they trick the driver into thinking they can take more risks (e.g., speeding; I am totally guilty of this). Combine this with a dense urban area, and you have a fatal concoction This Johns Hopkins study found wide and faster lanes have caused more deaths than narrower ones. Here is an article that talks a little bit about the study and also quotes the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB, U.S. agency for investigating civil transportation accidents). I see it as a false-sense of security just like people that have All-Wheel Drive or Four-Wheel Drive and think they are immune to a skid in slick conditions.

Regarding enforcing traffic laws, that does not really matter when the police in my city do not care until someone is already dead.