Shouldn’t bike lanes be relocated to the centre of the roadway? It would position the cyclist in a better place to be seen. At an intersection, only left-turning traffic would be affected and an advanced left turn arrow would eliminate the risk to the cyclist. – Jason, Vancouver
There’s not much middle ground when it comes to centre bike lanes – cycling experts generally agree that they make less sense than side-running or curbside bike lanes.
“Centre-running lanes are a bike-hostile traffic engineer’s dream,” Mikael Colville-Andersen, an urban design expert who hosted a TVOntario series called The Life-Sized City, said in an e-mail. “They do nothing to promote or
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