The bike lane is where the broken glass of car drivers’ thrown beer bottles collects that pops your tire. Bike lanes would make sense if the city swept the streets much at all. Real bicyclists prefer no bike lanes whatsoever, and secondary roads.
Muscle power limits speed necessarily. Bummer. But I like it when cars pass me with alacrity. I hate it when they hang back in my blind spot.
I obey traffic signals when cars are involved, because they have a ton of steel designed to kill me. But when other people are not involved, I blow every law on the books. I’m kinda libertarian that way. If the cops want to write me a ticket, go for it. The costs / benefit relationship tells me to blow the red light when nobody is around. I’m taking my own life into my hands.
The opposing problem of bikes going too slow, as you point out, is that biking is a momentum preservation game. So, when you get up a good head of steam, you want to keep it going. If you blow a red light in order to stay at 15 MPH, rather than coming to a dead stop, you do it if nobody is going to be inconvenienced or endangered.
Many bikers go further than I do and make boneheaded moves that do endanger themselves and others, and inconvenience others. So do car drivers, as you may have noticed. I’ve had plenty of poor drivers cause me to take massive evasive action. It’s a two way street that way.
So, if both drivers and bicyclists drive well and avoid confrontation when in each others presence, it should work out.
How’s that?
:-)
Honest answer, but still doesn’t explain why a group of bicyclists will spread out 3 and 4 abreast in an impossible to pass knot backing up cars other than the pure obnoxious factor. And as far as momentum at a light goes, when I’m driving it’s more fuel efficient for me to not stop too, but I do. Few things more annoying than having just gotten past a pack of road hogging cyclists only to have them squeeze by on the right while you’re stopped at the light, run it, and then have to face the task of getting past them again after the spread themselves out across the road again.
Is your bike registered for the road? my guess no.get back on the bike path glass or not. oh bike paths paid by dollars from the gas tax.