Editor,
Regarding the story, “Millbrae is set to ban biking on sidewalks” in the April 2 Daily Journal, ah, so Millbrae will now be installing protected and separated cycling lanes (class 1 and class 4) on every mid/high-volume street so folks no longer need to ride on the sidewalk and can instead ride safely on the streets. Fantastic. Kudos to the Millbrae City Council.
Oh, wait, they aren’t doing that. The only thing this will do is reduce the number of folks cycling, increase GHG, poison the air with more pollution, reduce public health, reduce mental health, injure and kill more cyclists, reduce kids autonomy, reduce the number of kids getting themselves to school, harm DEI and further burden disadvantaged communities, make it harder to perform chores and errands by bike, make it harder to get to recreation by bike, etc.
We need to be making it easier to ride bikes, not harder.
Giuliano Carlini
Belmont
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(5) comments
The average bicycle rider and automobile driver actually disgust each other. There's no common ground.
As an avid driver I disagree with this statement somewhat. I agree that we don't want to share the road with people on bicycles, because they are too slow and too vulnerable. Pedestrians don't want to share the road with people on bicycles or scooters either, because those are too fast.
If anyone could invent something where people on bicycles, scooters, skateboards aren't in the way of drivers or pedestrians ...
I wonder which genius politician or traffic engineer could come up with something like that.
Yes, designated bicycle paths and reserving the right side of every street and lane as they have in the Netherlands. When living in Amsterdam I never felt threatened. Car/bicycle accidents are rare. Of course, even bicyclists there obey the law and that is a problem here.
Thank you Dirk. You nailed it this time. The research, math, statistics, best practices, live simulation, etc are showing the same results: if cities provide the right infrastructure, people on bicycles don't have to brake the rules just for the simple goal of self-preservation. If I have the choice of riding on El Camino or riding on the sidewalk next to El Camino - I'm taking the sidewalk myself. And I would teach my children the same thing.
And especially at night, when "sharing the road" is suicidal - there is no way I'm not riding the sidewalk. It's just amazing how much incompetence and fear of science we see in local government and local politicians these days.
Shame on Millbrae for this misguided attempt at making things safer. How many people are dying on sidewalks because of dangerous people on bikes? Compare that with the frequent carnage on Millbrae streets when people are hit by cars or 50,000 trucks. The City should look at the numbers and focus its efforts where it will have an actual impact, instead of just playing to headlines.
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