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  1. TomC

    Cycle Tracks/Protected Bike Lanes: Safe?

    Riding in a city of about 200,000... Major urban through road - four lanes each way, left and/or right turn lanes added at each intersection as appropriate, speed limit 50KPH (31MPH), cruising in the rightmost through lane at the speed limit on a long downhill curve, I glance down and notice...
  2. TomC

    Cycle Tracks/Protected Bike Lanes: Safe?

    BOTH! As described, your "cycle track" is an obscenely poor design. There are places where separate cycle paths are an appropriate alternative -- generally these would be paralleling roads where what you call vehicular cycling would be completely inappropriate. The WORST urban strategy (in...
  3. TomC

    New York City Just Declared War on E-Bikes

    Hmmm... "He points to a 2015 study out of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, finding that these e-bike riders exhibited the same behaviors on the roadways as conventional cyclists." I hate to say this (especially here), but as a former NYC resident and long-time bicyclist, this study...
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