City proposes protected bike lanes along part of Comm. Ave.

How about asking for a source. BU was part of the pressure that got bike lanes for the first half of Comm Ave. The student groups have not been held back at all in their advocacy by BU's officials. The BU news mouthpiece have not show signs in being hesitant on the cycle tracks. I found no articles or even comments saying some kind of "I can't believe that BU official dissented".

Virtually every other Anon post get the 3rd degree to back themselves. But this time let's just take his word?

people are just that idiotic.. don't you read the herald comment sections? Hell, even BDC's brings my IQ down some when I read them.

To be fair, from being on this site for years... yes he does approve all anon comments, but mostly to filter out spam. Plus I know he does it at random times because you'll see 5-10 anon posts all appear at once.

I didn't. It seems to be a joke on the birther crowd that drags its knuckles across the Herald's comment sections.

Yes, there is a paragraph that purports to explain the configuration of intersections under this plan, but absent a diagram, it's hard to see how this will work.

The bike lane is to the right of the motor vehicle lane. At some point, motor vehicles turning right will have to cross the bike lane, at a point that presumably does not include a "physical barrier". How this is actually accomplished is left purely to the reader's imagination.

And why should anyone care what Howard Carr, who lives in Wellesley, think about what we in Boston do?

Because he's a hateful liar who writes for a Boston paper and, presumably, influences public opinion in the City of Boston.

When a bicyclist riding down a hill won't stop for a tractor trailer in his path, how does a "protected" bike track fix that? Its still not protecting from idiot bicyclists who fail to notice a 40+ foot trailer crossing their path and apply his brakes, if he had any.

Its not like that tractor trailer made a quick right hook in front of the cyclist. They don't turn on a dime, and in this case, the driver had to swing to the left lane on Comm. Ave. to make the right turn.

A big problem are cyclists who ride too fast for their brakes and/or don't use them in order to slow down when caution is needed. When there is a motor to do the work, there is no effort in speeding back up, so drivers and motorcyclists are more likely to slow down ahead of potential problems.

I'm blocked by the paywall, so have not read the Globe Article, yet saw some materials elsewhere, though they really didn't actually analyze the crashes and what ones might have been prevented by the proposed design. I imagine doorings are the most solved crash types.

US bicyclists seem different from European bicyclists. Here, its the "enthusiast" class doing more of the cycling than in Europe, hence riders here go faster than those in Europe. That also means they don't like getting slowed down by amateur cyclists on narrow bike paths and tracks, so they take to the street.

Are there any studies of US cyclist behavior on these "traffic calming" measures for cyclists?

I'm afraid healthy, fearless cyclists won't even use the tracks and instead ride in the street where its faster, then produce more traffic congestion by taking the (narrowed) lane.

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because it's worked out so well for the Silver Line washington street and the multitude of bike lanes we have throughout the city.

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