@1:40 tells you all you need to know about Houston's car culture. Guy parked in this TRUCK blocking 2 bike lanes and cop just passed by like he's not seeing a blatant violation. These are not high comfort bike lanes. Bath paths are high comfort bike lanes. These are better than nothing, but we need to allow bikes to get jump start on lights so they're not fighting left turning cars(look at UT Austin for their bike infastructure) and more enforcement of parking/etc in relation to bike lanes. Bike lanes are useless if there's cars park in them.
This is houston, does the city realize they're probably putting more bikers in danger rather than helping them with the amount of people who can't properly operate a vehicle
This one RU-vid channel called Not Just Bikes made a good point about bike friendly cities. I wanna be here too and say that those youngsters on pickup trucks are the worst but you put a bike in, and you remove 1 car from the road.
by creating well designed bike infrastructure and car infrastructure, they city will force safety because a mistake by a driver will not result in a death or injury of a pedestrian or cyclist. take other cities (mostly in other countries) that have done this for example and you'll see a DRASTICALLY smaller amount of collisions due to good planning. like the other person said, check out Not Just Bikes or other channels similar to learn more
🤮🤮🤮🤮I live in europe and the bike lanes are 10 times better. We dond have on street bike lanes. We have the road and next to the road a bike road that is 4 meters wide
Rather than trying to dunk on the US, try discussing thing in a reasonable way that allows people to want to be on your side. All your rhetoric does is stoke division and makes you sound intolerant. Besides, outside of Netherlands and select capital cities, that is absolutely not the norm in Europe.
The reality is that we should be building bike infrastructure and repaving streets at the same time. The fact that we make it a battle is ridiculous. Bike infrastructure IS car infrastructure in that it prevents bikers from blocking traffic and removes cars from the road via encouraging people to bike for short trips (like taking kids to school or going to the salon or doctors office).
one good thing about bike lanes is if many more people ride on them (or public transit) instead of in cars, less damage is caused to the roads from heavy cars.
Those concrete bike barriers needs to be removed. All they do is accumulate trash and debris making it dangerous if someone needs to swerve away such obstacles but can't that will result in an incident.
Those barriers protect bikers from being killed by cars that would swerve into them otherwise. We as a city need to learn to put pedestrian and bicycle safety over driver convenience if we ever want to truly mitigate traffic and create a modern looking city.
@@michaeld5458 ok so if you know that path is usually littered you would ride outside the bike lane which would put you even further out in the middle of the street. No one doesn't think how much more dangerous those barriers put the rider in.
I don't care about the cyclists anymore. They've WAY overstepped their bounds riding in the *middle* of busy streets, not using the bike lanes the city paid for rather than fixing the garbage roads, passive aggressively drifting in front of cars like some kind of speed controller, it's gone too far. They're getting *themselves* killed. Take it from a 40yr motorcycle rider. Also everyone is fed the f**k up with the drunk bar-hopping ride clubs in the evening I mean come on...
Granted I'm not from Houston, I'm from Philly, but I imagine our bike lane situation isn't all that different since bad or unusable bike lanes seems to be a common problem all across the country. If there's a bike lane that is full of debris, full of parked cars, or is constructed dangerously, I'm much less likely to use it. In fact, if it's full of debris or parked cars, I can't use it even if the city paid for it. When there's a halfway decent bike lane in the city, people on bikes will absolutely use it, but if the majority of people on bikes aren't using the bike lane there's something wrong with the bike lane. Also, not everything people on bikes do is done to piss off drivers. Our safety is more important to us than your feelings, so whatever we do is done for our own safety. If a person on a bike is drifting to the front at a light, it's because they need to get a jump on cars to prevent drivers from turning into them. If they're in the middle of the lane, it's because riding on the edge often encourages drivers to squeeze past without accurately measuring the space between them and the car.
There’s only limited bike infrastructure in the city. When bike networks are connected, you’ll see people stick to bike lanes. Imagine if we only built sidewalks everywhere, with one or two roads built here or there and expected cars to stick only to those roads. And yes there are bikers who drive like assholes and don’t obey traffic laws, but have you seen how people drive in this city? More of a Houston thing than a bike thing
@@michaeld5458 certain people just act like rules don't apply to them because they're on a different plane, they end up getting hurt, but it's *our* responsibility to comform to the stupidity of others?? Think about that next time you're driving and pay attention to cyclists breaking every single driving law in the book.. Us seasoned motorcyclists, it pisses us right off. Motors or pedals, you don't get special treatment and that's my point. It's always been this way. If you're on a bike on a public road, it's *your* responsibility to A) follow the law B) be aware of your surroundings and C) don't get yourself injured or killed
