Re: Let's hide the bicyclists behind parked cars. What could go wrong?

Joy Beeson <jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:43:35 -0500, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

A bicycle would be the fastest way of moving through that congestion!

 
I once gained on the cars on Central Avenue in Albany, New York while
walking on the sidewalk.
 
Wearing cycle-only slot-cleat shoes.
 
(This was *after* a major construction vastly improved the street.)
 

One of my wife’s colleagues (jokingly) complained that she had overtaken
her on the bus, by bike, and walking said bike on the pavement! And had
clearly been at work ages before she arrived!

I’d say not only are bikes good at congested street but also can use less
congested routes. Ie the big green spaces, ie don’t need to go around
stuff, one can cross the Thames for example by bike by more bridges than by
car.

Roger Merriman