Biking in Oakville

[karena]

RE: Hume: Cycling in Toronto is a joke - thestar.com

In Oakville, they added a bike lane on the stretch where I have to go to work (Kerr St)...but it stops just as the pavement narrows to go under the highway bridge. I expect it is no coincidence that there was a wreath placed near this bridge for most of the spring. Some bike lane! They have been

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[randomdreams]

There's a pretty strong contingent of people, largely informed by the data presented in Forester's "The Art Of Cycling", who maintain that while right-of-way on sidewalks is nice and enjoyable, it's significantly more dangerous than flat-out in-traffic riding because cars have less of a tendency to see and yield to cyclists on on-street paths than to cyclists directly in front of them. Counterintuitive and there have been studies that have challenged this, but there are a *lot* of studies, including strict statistical analyses of NTSB databases, that tend to support it.
Which of course doesn't make the situation of an on-street path suddenly vanishing straight into a very narrow bit of roadway any more palatable: that's probably the worst situation of all.

[karena]

With a curb and a drastic curve with no visibility. Argh! lol