Would you support a bike lane on your street if it removed parking?

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Mike Harris
Mike Harris

No, what we need is folks (drivers, parked cars, pedestrians, bike riders, electric scooter riders, ...) to follow the laws (which most of them don't know anyway). Example: Walking down a sidewalk on a street with parked cars and bike lanes and an electric scooter or bike rider comes tearing toward the walker. It makes you want to scream at the offender and the resulting confrontation can be a problem. Change brings on new rules and the rules are slow to get made and promulgated.

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kmoran
kmoran

Hi Mike, I have had this experience too, many times. The reason that people are biking and using scooters on the sidewalk is that it is unsafe to use the street. Many of our streets are not designed to be safe for bikes, scooters, and even for those of us on foot. We need to invest in making our streets safer, which means bike lanes to get the scooters and bikes off the sidewalk and makes streets narrower so cars go slower to make all of us safer). We also need to fix intersections, so we don't make it impossible for bikes to cross them on the street - and don't make it a life-threatening effort to cross a busy street. We can do this! All our streets could be safer for a fraction of the money we spend building fancy highway projects and street "improvements".

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