Originally Posted by
Steve B.
NY State law states you must use a bike path or bike lane if one is present. I suspect you could argue if the lane or path has structural defects that make it unsafe, but you'd be doing that in front of a judge after receiving the ticket.
yeah, but you would be able to argue, because you would be alive.
Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
Several years ago some misguided do-gooder bike advocates ruined one of the main north-south routes in town, by installing a 'bike path', which consisted of a borrowing a 10' wide strip of the roadway, installing a low concrete barrier, and plastic lane markers. Whereas the road previously was a 2-laner with very wide shoulders, now there are no shoulders, and cyclists riding at any speed are faced with a scary slalom course of lane markers, dog walkers, and broken-off car mufflers. Presumably the mufflers are there because cars hit the low barrier.
Those low barriers are the worst. Cars going fast enough can cross them, although with complete loss of control and considerable damage, and end up on top of cyclists ... and cyclists can't hop them and if they sideswipe a barrier they fall into traffic.
Brilliant.