Poll: what do you think about bike lanes?

As long as both parties are aware of the rules, they are great. I have seen bikers breaking rules, and that is not right.

I think they're a great addition! But around here, I see a lot of cars still driving in them, so in that case I think they may give a false sense of safety to the bike riders.

theyre important !

We don't have them, but it would be nice if we did.

When I used to ride, most of the time there weren't bike lanes available. And when they were, they were extremely dirty with rocks and debris, and even more dangerous to ride in then on the main road. I'll pass, and stick to where it is safer to ride.

I really like having the lanes around here. It makes driving, riding and walking easier! We have sidewalks on most of the main roads around here (we're a college town) and without the bike lane most people will ride on the sidewalks, which gets really frustrating when you're trying to walk.

Bike lanes are fine in sensible places, but sometimes they try to squeeze them in where the roads are barely wide enough to begin with, and it just makes things seem more dangerous.

I love them, and I think they're a great for the cyclists.

A lot of people here bike, but there aren't bike lanes B| makes it really dangerous for people who have to go over interstate / highway when traveling... which is what most of the roads are.

I ride my bike for transportation so naturally I'm all for them!

Bike is my primary transportation, so I love them. As far as seeing bikers break the rules, well I see car drivers do things like not yielding to the biker when the car is going to turn right and the bike is coming up their right hand side. That's very dangerous. The big pet peeve though is car drivers that use bike lanes as a turn lane.

We have bike lanes all over the place; I glad they're available because there are a lot of bicyclists around, and I don't have to swerve to avoid them.

We have bike lanes, but the bikers always ride the line. It's really scary for the driver's because they're always afraid they'll hit someone. It seems like they only do it in my city, though. Not sure why.

The bike lanes in my community are really nice! I like them a lot.

I'm not really sure how to vote. We have one bike lane near the grocery store and that's it. I'd like for there to be more, but my main concern right now is that I want them to install sidewalk.

A lot of kids have to walk home from school and the paths from the schools to the different subdivisions have no sidewalk whatsoever. It's just the road and then dirt on the side with two-feet-high overgrowth. We have scorpions and snakes here that could be hiding out in all that, in addition to random broken bottles from people chucking them out of their cars. It's just not safe.

we have some bike lanes, and I am for them! We have a lot of cyclists in the city and I feel safest (for both parties) when they are in their lane. It's really stressful driving on a narrow one way street with a bike next to you!

We have bike lanes here and there, but we have more running and bike trails so I rarely see bikers on the road.

We don't have bike lanes here but I wish we did. I hate it when bikers are in the road and wish they had their own lanes.

I feel like a lot of drivers in my area intentionally drive in the bike lanes to make life difficult for the bikers because a lot of the drivers in my area are jerks. As long as both sides obey the rules I think they're great.

Bike lanes are fine as long as the bikers stay in the lane and not ride the line

We have bike lanes and they are somewhat useful. It's not a complete network, they're not the best kind and city seldom bothers to remove debris from them. Every winter, they plow the streets and pile the snow (and debris) right in the bike lanes.

The best bike lanes I've seen are in NYC. Instead of having parked cars on the curb and a bike lane on the outside of that (in the traffic), they have lanes with the bike lane between the parked cars and the curb. These protected lanes are awesome. There's a lot less friction between drivers and cyclists, debris doesn't pile up in them and even grandmas feel safe to toodle around the city on a bike. Unlike most places, where it's either pedestrians-on-wheels (POWs) who bike because they don't have other choices or recreational spandex cyclists on bikes that cost more than my car.

If you don't ride a bike, you might not understand why a cyclist would ride so far to the left in the bike lane. 90% of the time, it's to avoid the broken glass, rocks and other nasty things which have accumulated in the bike lane. Also, if there are cars parked on the side, it's not safe for a cyclist to ride in the "door zone" right next to the parked cars.

There's definitely a lot of misunderstanding of the bike rules, especially among car drivers who don't realize the law in most places allows a cyclist to ride pretty much anywhere cars can go and that a cyclist has the right to take the whole lane when safety demands it. And yes, a lot of cyclists completely blow off the rules.

The rules need to be updated. In a couple of states, you don't have to come to a complete stop at stop signs, and you don't have to wait for a red light. You do have to slow down and make sure it's clear before going through a stop sign and you do have to come to a complete stop at a red light. Except in places with VERY heavy traffic, this makes A LOT more sense than having to stop/start at every intersection. I think these laws should be almost everywhere.

I used to commute by bike and loved it. I got a workout every day without having to go to the gym and it didn't take me any longer to get to work than if I drove. Parking was easy, I wasn't pumping a bunch of co2 into the air and just being outdoors for an hour a day was often the best part of the whole day. It would be nice if more people could have that and not have to worry about getting run over.