Wednesday, June 16, 2010
bicycles Road Sharing 101 Adds Cans to the Mix
Posted by Rachael Daigle on Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 6:00 AM
Ustick Road has certainly had its widening issues over the years, but if you're a bicyclist who commutes regularly, the stretch of road just east of Cole Road might not be wide enough still. Especially on trash day.
- Trash cans in the bike lane along Ustick.
- The new three-feet-to-pass ordinance requires cars to give cyclists a full yard of breathing room, but a cyclist would be hard-pressed to even stay in the bike lane heading east on Ustick. Citydesk drove by a line of about two dozen city trash and recycle bins on the Bench road Tuesday night and snapped these photos. A few blocks down, residents put their bins on the sidewalk, out of the bicycle lane.
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What happens when that "Three-Feet-To-Pass" requires vehicles to cross lanes and end up in on coming traffic? I'm all for bicycle safety but what happens when it puts my safety in jeopardy?
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the trash company requires those can to be out there so they can be picked up by the trucks robotic arms... and it looks like a sidewalk right behind the cans so stop you're whining and get your butt on the sidewalk where you can ride to your little heart's content instead of insisting that a few million more dollars be spent to "protect" you. There are far more important things to do with our money.
fah-tah,
Serious!? Slow down until the oncoming traffic passes and then pass the cyclist.
I ride my bicycle everyday to work, school, etc and I am either dodging cars or people who both yell and scream at me for being in "thier way", whether this be the sidewalk or the street. We have rights too, and that is specifically a BIKE LANE, would you like the trash cans in the middle of your lane in the street? Is anyone aware of the oil spill and our disturbing dependence on it or rather our sick addiction? At least I can say I am part of the solution, not the problem.
@Ronnie G
Legally, cyclists are supposed to stay off of the sidewalks. Sometimes we don't have a choice, but we're given a bike lane to keep us out of the street, thereby staying out of your way. If you'd like, we can just ride in the street when the bike lanes are blocked and slow down traffic. We're actually supposed to opt for street over side walk under the law. Just a warning though, I like to take my time going places.
Whatever happened to common sense?
If you are riding your bike and the bike lane is blocked, you have 2 choices. Use the street or the sidewalk. If you choose the sidewalk, then you must follow all of the pedestrian rules. If you choose the street, you must follow all of the vehicle rules.
With very few exceptions, right of way is given to the slowest moving object. Therefore a pedestrian would have right of way over a bike, and a bike would have right of way over a car.
If we treat everyone the way we want to be treated (Golden Rule) the majority of our problems would just go away. We must to learn to live as a family of humanity on this planet. This starts in our homes and reaches outward to our neighborhoods, cities, counties, etc.
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