[*BCM*] bike lanes/paths

[T B]

I'd like to respond to the comments regarding bike paths being useless:

I live in Allston, and love the Charles River Bikepath (aside from its 
disrepair this side of the BU Bridge).  I use it as a sort of bike highway 
where I don't have to watch for lights or much cross-traffic.  It gives me 
good, quick access to downtown/Back Bay/Mass Ave.

I agree that other paths, like the one running along Memorial Drive in 
Cambridge, just reinforce the perception that bikes don't quite belong on 
the road.  There seems to be no benefit to riding there (you still have all 
the lights) except for not being in traffic.  And, for the roads to be safer 
for cyclists, we need as many of them in traffic as we can get.

As for bike lanes: when they put cyclists in the path of car doors, they are 
the worst kind of bike project.  They take tax dollars and put cyclists in 
danger.

-Tom

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