{"id":4609,"date":"2015-05-22T07:28:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:28:16","slug":"maybe-some-places-shouldnt-have-those-pet-bike-lanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"Maybe some places shouldn’t have those pet “bike lanes”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bike_lane_ip_5944\"<\/a>Driving on Divide Avenue yesterday I noticed people swerving around an obstruction in the road.\u00a0 I rolled up on it myself and noticed that the problem was one of those “bike lane” markings protruding into the driving lane, freshly painted and marked with a cone.\u00a0 I think these are a bad idea in the first place, but they’re a real head-scratcher when found in places like this.<\/p>\n

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\"bike_lane_ip_5904\"<\/a>Aside from mixing bike traffic with motor vehicle traffic in an unsafe manner, these markings are often placed in areas where that merging can’t possible work well.\u00a0 Case in point: this is a hundred feet or so down the road from the previous photo.\u00a0 Traffic on Divide is pushed into two lanes to provide a left turn lane at 4th Street.\u00a0 Where’s the room for the cyclist here?\u00a0 This bottleneck seems dangerous to me.<\/p>\n

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\"bike_lane_ip_5956\"<\/a>If people have to cross the center line to get around the cone and paint, are they going to do the same to avoid a cyclist?\u00a0 That’s better than hitting the guy on the bike, sure…but still not a desirable result on a busy street.<\/p>\n

This is just one more example of how some of the starry-eyed “progressive” ideas of our community leaders don’t always translate into real world solutions.\u00a0 If I find myself biking this area, I’ll just stay on the sidewalk, thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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