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Bike lanes on Richmond-San Rafael Bridge are contributing to pollution, drivers say
(www.cbsnews.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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What’s wild to me is that you can fully support bike lanes, but the moment you suggest we educate cyclist on how they work and cyclists flip out. Like the mere mention of education sends them into convulsions.
My town put up bike lanes everywhere, and I constantly have to dodge bikes on the sidewalk when I’m walking my toddler. And the bike lane next to the sidewalk sits empty right next to us. Most of the bike lanes are not on the road and if they are it’s never on a main or busy road. I’ve heard complains that bike lanes can be scary for the cyclists, well you zipping by me and my kid is scary for the pedestrian.
So I think educating cyclists on how bike lanes work and enforcing them is crucial, otherwise what’s the point of them? The sad part is when I say “we should build bike lanes and make sure the people using them are educated on how they work and how the road laws and pedestrian yielding works” and everyone loses their mind.
What do you mean, "educate cyclists on how bike lanes work"? They are there and you ride on them.
There’s the problem, that’s all you think it is? Is that why cyclists are unable to signal and yield and have any sort of common courtesy. Why is education a dirty word to cyclists?
I'm dutch and grew up in the Netherlands, they're so ubiquitous here you learn at a young age and so many people are cycling it is easy to learn from looking at what others do and still we have kids do an exam in the last year before high school, they have to learn the rules and cycle a certain route while people in plain clothes check if you know them.
On the other hand, that is necessary because kids would otherwise learn the rules way later when trying to get their drivers license. I can imagine someone who knows the rules for cars would feel belittled by having to be educated on something 'inferior' after they already got their drivers license.
But I wonder, do people not follow the rules because they don't know them (= they need to be educated) or because they don't like them (= the rules need to be enforced)?