Things like these are generally to satisfy environmental or urban development legislation or to get some kind of government grant for the project. Bikeability/walkability on paper for the beauracrats.
Same reason you see a row of like five bike racks on the side of giant multistory parking garages.
As a cyclist I have to say, this is so bad and on so many levels that I couldn’t stop laughing. Many bike lanes are made poorly, but this is clearly one of the worst I 've seen.
Is this real??! Where is this located??
No idea where it is, but I’ve seen these around the Midwest plenty
Why the fuck is there a bike lane on the motorway
Pretty standard here in NZ too. As a Dutch guy I would never ever cycle there. Cycles don’t belong on a motorway.
There’s a safer but equally insane solution off some A-roads in the UK: https://maps.app.goo.gl/vsNMgsfYT7ooa39R9 .
I’m all for expanding cycle networks across major roads, but the wider motorist mindset isn’t quite ready for it yet, particularly on my old commuting routines like these arterial routes into London. I’d love to see more cycle lanes but not at the cost of more injured or dead cyclists or scooter users.
Sorry, what? Is that “lane” supposed to be a bike lane? That’s narrower than most sidewalks. Also, about 100 metres in there’s that lane merging in, what are you supposed to do then?
This is even less safer than op’s photo because it forces cars to close pass bikers.Unfortunately they’ll never be ready for it. The good news is that dangerous cycling lanes like these aren’t the only option. We should be investing in safe cycling infrastructure.
I’m like 90% sure this is in Orlando and every time I drove by I thought about how fucked that bike lane is.
Wooh! Bike lanes!
I used to bike in downtown Atlanta to commute to and from my college dorm to campus. It was Georgia State University from the Commons if you’re curious. I had to get really good at going fast very quick because cars just don’t wait. I got really good at it. I used to bike with my dad and he could beat me on endurance but I didn’t need to warm up at all lol. Atlanta traffic will really “encourage” you to get going.
My experience is a perfect example of why bikers seem to pretend to be a car or a pedestrian when it is convenient. If no one is on the sidewalk then I’ll take the sidewalk. But, seeing as I was a college student going from my dorm to campus everyone else was going to the same place. There was pretty much always people on the sidewalk. It becomes this balancing act of how unsafe is it for me to be on the road and risk being hit because we don’t have bike lanes (they might now, there’s been a lot of work done in the area) versus how much danger am I putting a pedestrian in by risking hitting them. 90% of the time I took the street, it’s not worth risking hitting someone. Plus there wasn’t always that much traffic. Coming home from my evening classes were the ones I primarily used the sidewalk for. Also if the road and the sidewalk are both empty I generally take the road since it is safer to go faster there. Cars don’t pop out of nowhere the way a pedestrian can.
