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Positioning of Bus & Cycle Lanes - Why?!

QueenMTBee · 2018-01-04 09:27:53

I'm back commuting on my road bike after a shoulder injury and the last few mornings have genuinely wondered who and why first thought of combining bus and cycle lanes and/or the positioning of them. It seems a bit stupid to put the most clumsy road users which constantly stop and start/pull in and out of the kerb in the…

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#32 05-01-2018 3:01pm
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Koobcam wrote: »

That's true I suppose, and I can think of plenty of places in Dublin where car parking spaces might be gotten rid of in favour of better road layout in general. However you have to admit there are also a lot of areas where sticking down a bike lane in an ideal manner is just not practical. I reckon everyone should just stop reading the journal and listening to Newstalk and just wait for the arrival of driverless cars...

When does it become practical?

http://www.broadsheet.ie/2017/01/11/cyclists-outnumber-motorists-1269-to-1131/

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