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| What possibly could be unsafe with this “bike-friendly” layout? |
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Sharrows and lazy municipal governance are cut from the very same bolt of moth-eaten cloth.
“Sharrows are popular because they are politically easy,” and so in NA, they’ll multiply like rabbits.
In New Albany, Main Street used to be the very best place to ride a bicycle from Uptown to Downtown. Then the street was “improved” through beautification sans sensibility, and now our friend and regular reader MPC provides something that has eluded generations of underachieving city planners and designers: A voice of, and from, experience.
What he says here is reason enough to purge John Rosebarger, isn’t it?
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“Just thought I’d share my biking on main street experience with you. Someone is going to get seriously hurt or worse. I was in the supposedly “shared” lane traveling east around the Culbertson mansion, all while cars were zipping past me trying to squeeze through any place they could, forcing me into the parking lanes. Then I had to reenter traffic when I came upon those extensions that are supposed to slow traffic down. What about this renovation and painted biking signs on the pavement was supposed to make it safe for cyclists? I have no problems riding in traffic and sharing lanes, its motorists with NASCAR mentality and ambiguous “shared” lanes that are scary.”
