Brilliant Move --Dedicated Bicycle Lanes in Downtown

[sdurbanite]

I'm just happy to see that there are other bicyclist on this forum

If you're interested in seeing what other bike lane projects are planned for the near and far future, the link below has some good stuff.

Regional Bike Projects Introduction

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by elchevere

on the positive side for motorists and bicyclists, the City actually spent money and resurfaced (not, the cheaper alternative of let's fill in the pothole and kick the can down the road) part of Broadway in downtown.....anybody else notice resurfaced streets in other parts of town?

Some around Clairemont finally. What's the latest with the bond talks.

[oddstray]

So here's a thing - I saw two bicyclists on SR-56. Not on the bike path, on the highway itself. I caught their attention and facepalmed and pointed down to the bike path I was walking along. They very cheerfully thanked me for pointing that out and said something to the effect of, "we're not going there (eastward?) but there (northward?)". So they were there deliberately. Were they going to ride along I-15? That is blatently illegal, not to mention downright stupid. There are bike lanes and/or bike paths in every direction. So what on earth were they thinking? (They weren't even in the correct lane to take I-15.)

But then, I would not ride my bike on the Rancho Carmel Drive (northward from there) bike lane - it would almost certainly cause me to crash because it has been in wretched condition since shortly after it was created. If that's what they were protesting, there are safer ways to go about it. (Critical mass of bicyclists riding on Rancho Carmel - oh, wait. Rancho Carmel itself is a wreck and I wouldn't ride my bike on that, either.)

But guys like that are part of the reason car drives hate on bicyclists.

[The Flying Dutchman]

I admire anyone who's willing to put their life on the line despite 60 years of infrastructure planning going against them, for the pure and simple joy of riding on a bike.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Many freeways allow riding on them. We ride to Laguna on the 8 after you clear Alpine. If they are used to doing that maybe they just didn't know.

http://www.cabobike.org/touring/freeway.htm

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by 1AngryTaxPayer

Many freeways allow riding on them. We ride to Laguna on the 8 after you clear Alpine. If they are used to doing that maybe they just didn't know.

http://www.cabobike.org/touring/freeway.htm

No, they absolutely knew. They said they knew. So I still don't know what that was about.

Bikes used to be OK on I-15 across Lake Hodges until they put up the footbridge.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Originally Posted by oddstray

No, they absolutely knew. They said they knew. So I still don't know what that was about.

Bikes used to be OK on I-15 across Lake Hodges until they put up the footbridge.

They probably wanted to take an exit the bike path didn't hit. The path goes under and over many cross streets with no exit off the path.

[sdurbanite]

Originally Posted by oddstray

So here's a thing - I saw two bicyclists on SR-56. Not on the bike path, on the highway itself. I caught their attention and facepalmed and pointed down to the bike path I was walking along. They very cheerfully thanked me for pointing that out and said something to the effect of, "we're not going there (eastward?) but there (northward?)". So they were there deliberately. Were they going to ride along I-15? That is blatently illegal, not to mention downright stupid. There are bike lanes and/or bike paths in every direction. So what on earth were they thinking? (They weren't even in the correct lane to take I-15.)

But then, I would not ride my bike on the Rancho Carmel Drive (northward from there) bike lane - it would almost certainly cause me to crash because it has been in wretched condition since shortly after it was created. If that's what they were protesting, there are safer ways to go about it. (Critical mass of bicyclists riding on Rancho Carmel - oh, wait. Rancho Carmel itself is a wreck and I wouldn't ride my bike on that, either.)

But guys like that are part of the reason car drives hate on bicyclists.

So seeing 2 bicyclists riding on the freeway shoulder is enough to make you hate on bicyclists? If you were driving on the freeway past them, they'd be out of your sight within 5 seconds. And you can ride along the freeway shoulder unless there is sign that says otherwise. Would I do it? Heck no, but they don't bother me.

[oddstray]

Originally Posted by sdurbanite

So seeing 2 bicyclists riding on the freeway shoulder is enough to make you hate on bicyclists? If you were driving on the freeway past them, they'd be out of your sight within 5 seconds. And you can ride along the freeway shoulder unless there is sign that says otherwise. Would I do it? Heck no, but they don't bother me.

They weren't on the shoulder. They were in the fast lane, one behind and one next to a car that was also in that lane.

They were there deliberately, I'm assuming trying to prove some point. What point that might be totally escapes me. If they were on a highway that had no safe bicycle alternative, I could understand and, as it happens, agree that cars need to share the highway with bicycles. SR-56 does not fit that description - it has a safe, separate bike path along most of its length and bike lanes at the shoulders for a short strretch at the eastern end. There may be no signs explicitly forbidding bicyclists on SR-56 itself because, duh!

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Oh, I didn't read where you said they were actually in a car lane. Then they were obviously trying to prove something. Maybe testing helmets to see if they would survive a hit from a car going 65.

Darwin contestants.