Originally Posted by
L134
The local bicycle advocacy group, San Diego Bicycle Coalition, is pushing these damn things and they are, unfortunately, multiplying! In my view, they are the most dangerous place anyone can ride and I avoid them like the plague. They are unsafe at anything more than walking speed so what is the point?
The point is that it’s probably the best the Coalition could get the City engineers to agree to. the painted bike gutter isn’t safer than riding in the road, it doesn’t increase mode share, but it does get SOMETHING bike related onto the road. Once a bike “lane” exists, it’s harder for the engineers to remove it than to improve it. It’s a foothold rather than a final condition.