San Francisco MTA has implemented this bike lane and for the last few months it has been a controversy among cycling advocates.
Full video here: https://youtu.be/TWsgn7B0Q9Q?si=hq8WS9ixkl0mavVf
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👎 horrible but better than no bike lane
It’s a bold idea that could prove to be a step toward better ideas
It's ridiculous that a bike lane on a single street is controversial but the fact that street parking is on almost every single street somehow isn't. Who is subsidizing who here? Bike lanes move thousands of people while car parking let's a small handful of people store their giant machine at everybody else's expense.
It makes the car drivers jealous. Thats a win in my book.
That's a terrible idea
I think I'll save my evaluation for when there is more data. I suspect it's significantly better than a lot of alternatives, but it's probably not the ideal way to design this street, even if they want to maintain the same amount of parking and driving lanes.
Better than having parking to the right of the bike lane where you get doored and better than no bike lane
I'd hate to cycle while surrounded by cars, both sides! Imagine the smell and noise…
Hard to make an opinion like this, show us a longer video and definitely show the intersections
I like that it has a bike lane, I don’t like that you have to cross a lane of moving traffic to get to your destination if it is along this road. I prefer protected lanes close to curbs.
Terrible. No tree canopy shade. Noisy vehicles either side. Surrounded by exhaust and dust fumes. Requirement to cross lanes to exit bike lane. Cannot access your destination if it’s mid-block.
And that is eh, probably designed by Idiots Inc!
DC has one too. It feels a bit weird, you have to cross the street to get into it. It feels like curb aligned lanes are more comfortable even if this works. But this might be quicker to implement and then you can use it as leverage to redo the street with the lanes on the side
I think it’s got the right idea, sort of poor execution though, I can see how it tries to prioritize bikes symbolically and subsequently make them the preferred method of transport but it misses the mark by not being especially appealing, noisy cars, no shade, etc. I hope the sentiments created by this persist into better bike lanes being developed
With the bicycle path in the middle of the street,, there are no problems with parked cars. So it can be a good solution.
Worse than bike lanes on both sides, creates many more conflicting trajectories on intersections
It’s unsafe because there is nothing stopping drivers from driving onto it. Multiple bikes have already been hit by drivers.
Separated bike lanes are great, but running them down the middle is usually not great design. It means that have to cross car traffic at least twice when using it, and traffic lights get very confusing.
Too weird for my liking. However, I do notice it says "fire lane" right down the middle, so I guess when the lights and sirens come, the bikes have to move aside.
Bike lane good
Location bad…now everyone has to cross oncoming traffic to enter and exit
I dont understand why you are trying to reinvent the wheel with dumb stuff like this.