Comment 20431

By Hopeful (registered) | Posted March 28, 2008 at 15:20:14

It seems to me that we need safe lanes or paths for bikes before we need more of them on the streets (we also need lanes and paths that go where you need to go). I've literally had my arm brushed by car side mirrors here and been sworn at for "taking up too much of the road" (I definitely wasn't but I guess there was no room to pass the other four lanes of traffic except the far right-hand lane). I might risk this on the main streets and what pass for bike routes in the City myself but surely wouldn't let my kids out on their own or wish the Hamilton riding environment on inexperienced free-bike cyclists wanting to go from A to B. It was with dismay that I read Terry Cooke's mention that bike lanes were tried on Main Street years ago (in a Spectator piece recently ) and learned what happened. Make cycling safe and a lot more of us will do it far more regularly. We really really want to.

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