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How Can Adding Bike Lanes Actually Improve the Flow of Car Traffic, While Increasing Overall Safety? In Two Words, Clever Design
enjoy driving at you on your side of the road in their four by fours or white vans.
What can you do about it?
Avoid being killed, otherwise; nothing!
Anyway, these signs need to be standardized.
Pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles do not all have green at the same time, on many of the streets, with left turn lanes. It is my hope that this lession would be expanded to all street corners, enabling vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles to all have "a turn" to move fluidly with out getting into what I call a "Street Fight" at the intersection. "Street Fights" both slow traffic and increase the likelihood of accidents.
The city should also try to change the culture and mindset of the wreckless behaviors of all vehicles drivers, as well as pedestrians and bicycles to one of adhering to the traffic signals, both through an aggressive publicity campaign and aggressive enforcement.
Cities like Montreal have a very courteous and law abiding culture, when it comes to pedestrians and bicycles. We can get there too, if we ask the public to cooperate. We will then have a friendlier and safer experience on the streets.