Most American cities weren’t exactly made for safe bike riding. Narrow streets and hostile drivers make many roads less than friendly for cyclists, and while city planners have had more pressure on them lately to make room for bicycle transit, some of them just seem to throw in a pointless stretch of bike lane in the randomest of places and call it ‘bike friendly’.
So, where’s the stupidest bike lane in America? The guys at SlateV.com found what they considered to be the winner, and asked readers to send in examples of stupid bike lanes in their communities. They got tons of responses. Surprisingly, the stupidest bike lanes of all are in Europe (probably because there are so many more bike lanes in Europe than in America) but they did manage to find an amazingly dumb one in America, too.
“Depending on some traffic engineer’s thin stripe of paint to keep you safe may be the stupidest idea of all”.
Kudos to SlaveV.com for pointing this problem out. Bicyclists certainly aren’t fooled by city planners’ attempts to get a pat on the back by randomly inserting dead-end bike lanes into streets.
Link [Green Daily]
