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He doesn't like bike lanes because no one rides bikes. If only we could figure out why no one rides bikes...
I'm actually more concerned that he doesn't see people using bike lanes. I know exactly which type of driver he is as I'm out there riding in the lanes and street where lanes don't exist.
Sounds like he hasent been anywhere downtown or near any light rail stops in years if he never sees anyone riding bikes/scooters. They are all over.
He can't see any cyclists cause they're all pancaked underneath his car
I am going to be the minority here, but I also rarely see people use bike lanes. I live in the north end and don't often go downtown where I know more people are biking. At least on N 125th/130th, Pinehurst Way, and even Campus Way near North Seattle College, it is a shock seeing anyone use the bike lanes at all.
I drive those routes five days a week. I am not against bike lanes, but... at a certain point when you don't see people using them you start questioning whether they need to be everywhere.
Not from the area, but do your bike lanes look like this?
These types are death gulches, and are super spooky to use, since you can get people drifting in from the left and smashing into you, or someone opening their car door from the right and knocking you down into the active road.
If you don't have the type that are protected, or they are, but aren't connected to a larger network, they aren't terribly useful the same way a dirt road isn't useful for inner city traffic.
The bike lanes on 130th are pretty useless right now, they connect from nothing to nothing, but eventually they'll link the Interurban trail to the light rail station and down to Lake City, so I think they will see a lot more use when they're finished.
Bike lanes are the absolute bare minimum and suck to ride in, everyday people aren't going to ride in a bike lane. If you're saying we shouldn't install bike lanes in favor of better bicycle infrastructure like separated bike paths I'm all for that obviously, but we also shouldn't let perfection get in the way of progress. Connecting the network of bike lanes is progress, as the only thing that sucks more than riding in a bike lane is when the bike lane ends without warning, dumping you into traffic.
When we talk about bike lanes in general, there aren’t enough people riding bikes to make it worthwhile. There’s too many cars on the road. It’s unrealistic to say we’re going to put in bike lanes, but there aren’t enough people riding bikes. What are we gonna do? Tell everyone to go out and buy a bike? How many people are going to do that?
Someone teach this guy what "induced demand" is.
When you widen roads, more people get in cars and create more traffic. So yes, if you make it safer to ride bikes, more people will get on bikes to get around.
I'm surprised he knows a song that old.
The biggest problem, as I see it, is that even in this interview he demonstrates a lack of knowledge on subjects that he claims to be passionate about.
Brave! Joining the Seattle Slackers Society isn't a job for wimps!