I love the fact that 20 years ago, Monona actively discouraged cyclists from riding through their community and are only now realizing that, hey, those folks on 3k bikes probably have money... Meanwhile fitchburg was like “count us in”...

Cheers fellow Monona (Madison?) resident! 

I am a grown up and I like cars and bicycles.

So you’re the asshole that I always had to jump onto the sidewalk to avoid.

In high school, our mountain biking team would often ride the back roads for strength training. Lots of hilly, twisty, one-and-a-half gravel lanes. There was this one school bus that would intentionally veer towards us. Every. Single. Time. Managed to side swipe a few of us.

Just keep making crap up and expecting people to know whats going on. This design is amazingly dumb.

No, ban cars instead.  We are talking about the midwest, those folks could use the exercise.  

I’m assuming this is a joke, because no one could legitimately hold such an absurd position.  

As both a driver and a cyclist I’ve found exactly the opposite.  Cyclists are almost never aggressors in any interaction.  I’ve seen far more motorists yell at, and aggressively drive next to, cyclists than the other way around.  

Your car has a 3,000 lbs weight advantage. Maybe the threat instant death is a factor here? 🤔

No.

Can you blame them?

Not really. I am not bothered by driving my Mustang GT at 25 mph or even less, if it is a residential area, park or some other place which driving slower is the only safe way to drive...

lol

JFC this is stupid. There is an easy method to achieve the primary goal of slowing drivers down. Put in 2 lanes, 9 ft wide each to one side of the road, narrower roads tend to get people to slow down naturally, then, create a 1.5 Ft or so wide raised barrier, with some small trees or bushes, this separates the car and…

Anyone who’s ever ridden a bike can attest they’ve felt safe and respected by cars in traffic.

seriously. The uncomfortable truth is that if they really want to share the road they need to actually give bikes the same road access and just reduce the speed limit to match that of the average speed of a bike. of course they won’t do that because the idea of driving at 25 mph causes a lot of us midwest americans to…

This is the worst solution I have seen yet. Very impressive.

UGH. One of the communities near me did a similar thing where they had sidewalks that would alternate between bike path + curb and then 50 foot section of sidewalk on both sides of the road to “calm traffic.” The sidewalk would be in the same place as the bike path was for the last couple hundred yards. And since, as…

I give it a few days before a person on a bike is hit by a car, OR the street is just gridlocked because 1 car doesn’t want to give ROW to another.