moderndukes t1_jau1yvu wrote on March 4, 2023 at 1:52 AM

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Wouldn’t putting both directions of bike traffic on the same side with a two-way bike like fix all of these issues? Because I’m presuming with the cleaning you mean streetsweeping which could theoretically occur on such a lane.

orlitzky t1_jau5ayg wrote on March 4, 2023 at 2:18 AM

tl;dr yes

There are different problems with the two-way lanes (people don't look for bike traffic coming from the "wrong" direction, for example), but they do solve many of the problems with the typical outside single-lanes. It would be much harder to say that either is definitively better.

(And I'd love to be wrong about this, but I don't think they sweep the double-lanes even where it would be feasible.)

moderndukes t1_jau7mxf wrote on March 4, 2023 at 2:37 AM

(It would be theoretically possible though, right? Since they’re designed to be wide enough for an emergency vehicle I believe?)

orlitzky t1_javmk1g wrote on March 4, 2023 at 12:31 PM

If there wasn't such a large gap between what's theoretically possible (easy, even) and what we wind up with, I would have just kept my mouth shut in the first place!