prestavalve wrote: ↑15 Apr 2021, 4:05pm
I will absolutely concede that when I fancy a nice ride to work every morning just now, I get off the A road and take the back lanes. No doubt about that. Never felt the need for bollards on them though.
Those ones might not need them, then. Some would benefit from them, else they get full of cars whenever there's a slight queue on the A road.
I do regularly get an earful from drivers who pass me about using a particular cycle lane that heads out of town:
It sounds like the problem is the drivers more than the cycle lane, but let's not hold it against all of either.
[...] told me that I should be on the cyclepath because "I can't see you" - which posed an existential conundrum
Best reply I've heard for that is "so who are you talking to, then?"
(I have lights and fluro helmet and, on that day, strips).
Ah. Urban camouflage!
More cyclists are the solution: I don't want to wait for the infrastructure to come along, that's all.
Of course, when you get enough cyclists to flood an area, the infrastructure becomes pretty irrelevant. Remember the pictures of when factories used to kick out hundreds of cyclists: you couldn't see the paint on the road and the few motorists weren't moving for a while.
Better infrastructure gets us more cyclists. It's not the only way, but it does seem to help. We're not waiting for it either, but we've spent decades proving and reproving that promotion and encouragement alone isn't enough, or that there's any point trying to ignore the infrastructure which gets built anyway: if we ignore it, then the requests of the motoring lobby go unopposed and that's usually bad for us. I suggest it's worth dealing with some of the designed-for-motorists junk out there, such as bad traffic lights.