On Fri May 30 13:24:04 2025 Frank Krygowski wrote:
Yes, LAB's "Bike Friendly" is almost all about how many miles of special paths or stripes have been laid down, with little or no attention to
quality. Years ago we rode some western city - maybe Durango CO? I
forget - that was then rated a "silver level bike friendly city" by LAB. Every bike lane we saw was firmly in the door zone of the many parked cars.
If I were in charge of their standards, a door zone bike lane would
blackball the city.
The limitation there of
course is that you need to live a reasonable distance from a trail or you're stuck with driving the to trail or riding through unfriendly roads...
Right. So that makes bicycling into a play activity for restricted
spaces. How limiting!
(LAB ranks it with the 4th highest cyclist fatality rate in the
country, despite the 6th highest per capita spending)..
Bike fatality rates are normally computed per capita, i.e. per resident.
I think it would be more valuable (although obviously more difficult) to compute it per mile traveled by bikes. (Some researchers do try to do
that, e.g. John Pucher.) States with less cold weather tend to have more bicycling, and while bicycling is generally quite safe, more bicyclists
- especially incompetent ones - will cause a larger number of bike fatalities.
What is "quality"? The kind of paint they use?
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