A friend was recently complaining that cyclists were (also) complaining when he was walking on bike paths, but the city itself asks pedestrians to walk on bike paths because there’s often no sidewalk. There’s space for 4 lanes of cars plus parking on both sides, but not a sidewalk and a bike path, it’s one or the other.
In don’t remember the guy’s name right now but there was an infamous cycling advocate a few decades ago that was against bike paths because it put cyclists into a specific space instead of making everyone share the streets that were already existing. I kind of wish his way of thinking won. Instead of pushing cyclists, pedestrians, people with strollers, people on scooters and all of the “not a car” forms of transport into the margins of a street, we should give the street to everyone, and force people with cars to share and care for everyone.
I know it’s fantasy and unfortunately cars will always be given most of the space, even when road dieting, but it would have been nice.
Probably one of the many North American car dependent cities unfortunately. Even if there are sidewalks, they probably don’t have curb cuts, and are not plesent to walk down.
Drummondville in Québec. They have multiple stroads where they put a bidirectional bike path on one side of the street, and sometimes a sidewalk on the other side, or not.
We can’t see it on street view but they recently painted pedestrians on the bike paths, to indicate they are shared, probably because cyclists were getting annoyed.
A friend was recently complaining that cyclists were (also) complaining when he was walking on bike paths, but the city itself asks pedestrians to walk on bike paths because there’s often no sidewalk. There’s space for 4 lanes of cars plus parking on both sides, but not a sidewalk and a bike path, it’s one or the other.
In don’t remember the guy’s name right now but there was an infamous cycling advocate a few decades ago that was against bike paths because it put cyclists into a specific space instead of making everyone share the streets that were already existing. I kind of wish his way of thinking won. Instead of pushing cyclists, pedestrians, people with strollers, people on scooters and all of the “not a car” forms of transport into the margins of a street, we should give the street to everyone, and force people with cars to share and care for everyone.
I know it’s fantasy and unfortunately cars will always be given most of the space, even when road dieting, but it would have been nice.
What city is this? No sidewalk???
Probably one of the many North American car dependent cities unfortunately. Even if there are sidewalks, they probably don’t have curb cuts, and are not plesent to walk down.
Drummondville in Québec. They have multiple stroads where they put a bidirectional bike path on one side of the street, and sometimes a sidewalk on the other side, or not.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/7og9R94mDoKashZZ9
https://maps.app.goo.gl/zrkAVxA6Y2pN9tgS8
We can’t see it on street view but they recently painted pedestrians on the bike paths, to indicate they are shared, probably because cyclists were getting annoyed.