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Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Like Bike Lanes. Floridians Seem To Agree.

www.strongtowns.org Ron DeSantis Doesn’t Like Bike Lanes. Floridians Seem To Agree.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation to accelerate road projects, claiming it will make driving less miserable. However, driving in Florida isn’t miserable because of a lack of roads — it’s miserable because the road network is designed in nonsensical, dangerous ways that increase conges

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I've known enough people that have gotten injured or died from cars that I am also against them. However, I go the other way and heavily encourage building more, separate bike paths. Fuck cars.
- As always, paint is not infrastructure. What we need is bike lanes that are actually, physically separated from the road. While I've seen a pretty optimistic share of drivers not drive in the bike lane, there's still an unfortunately high amount of people who gladly will.
- Completely agree. Also, sharing the road with cars just sucks on general: noise, smell, sudden gusts of wind.
  I really love what the Minneapolis area did. There used to be railroad lines all over the place around here, and many of them have been turned into walking/bike highways, connecting a vast network of off-street (separated by grass) paved paths. I can ride from my house in the burbs to the co-op in the local town and be on streets only through my neighborhood to get to the nearest rail-trail. It's only 8 miles to the store, but still - entirely off street, dedicated walking/bike paths.
  It's one of the things I love most about this place, and coming from the Philadelphia region, it's a little awe-inspiring.
- Yeah. I always try to check when crossing bike lanes but we need the ones that have a physical barrier b/t the roadway and bike lanes.

I don't like bike lanes either. For the same reason I don't like driving.
Cause you can't trust another driver. As others mentioned, proper infrastructure would make bike "lanes" a thing of the past. Where I live we have multiple bike-trails that go through the city but IMO it's still only partially decent enough, because every 1.5 blocks is a crosswalk, so you're risking it going over 15mph (slightly faster than a casual biking speed) or wavering your speed between 6 and 15. Which is fine but seems to defeat the purpose of having a trail specifically for bikes.