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[article] Want better bike lanes? Make room for wheelchairs and mobility scooters
(www.nationalobserver.com)
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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I would argue that anything that can't reach 35 km/h belongs in the bike lane, and everything faster belongs on the roads. Once you get past, say, 40, you can keep up with cars well enough for it to not really make sense to be in the bike lane anymore.
Then again, a fast cyclist is likely to hit those speeds on flats. And cars will still try to run me off the road even if I go that speed and the road I'm cycling on had a speed limit of 40 km/h.
I meant 40 km/h using the machine's power. There is a different vibe to someone pushing hard to reach 40 km/h on the kinds of streets that have a 40 limit (corner coming up every half mile, stop signs, lights) and someone that just twists their wrist and accelerate to 40 in a timely manner while sitting tall. Drivers react to the two very differently.
Fast cyclists are an interesting case because they're much faster than slow cyclists and incompatible with the bike lane, but they're much more vulnerable than cars in the car lanes.
I guess they're kind of like motorcycles in that way.