My city is full of these Cloverleaf interchanges where cars exiting the freeway are merging into high speed traffic.
So I get to pedal down this road and get sandwiched between buses/trucks on the left and merging cars on the right. Legitimately the worst part of my commute where I might actually die. Fun!
That isn’t bike infrastructure…that’s homicidal government negligence. You should invite a few city councilors or transportation bureaucracts to go for a bike ride with you sometime…I agree with the other commenter who suggested finding another route. Its totally worth the longer ride to miss this death trap
I wish, for once, that city planners used the infrastructure that they built. Maybe then would they realize how silly/dangerous/insane some of these design decisions are.
It’s hard to get a new cyclist to use a route like that, which puts someone back in their car.
From one confident pedaler to another: don’t go this way. This is bad news and only a matter of time.
Yeah it sucks that the freeway runs right through the middle of the city, it’s a whole other trip to find safer roads to cross to the other side. Fortunately the Work-from-Home culture has stuck at my company so I don’t have to do this everyday.
Yikes. That merge cries out for some kind of physical barrier to enforce the bike lane. Does your municipality track cyclist accidents by location? I’d want to know how many people got mowed down there before riding on it.
I don’t know per location but my city (San Jose) is infamous for the number of pedestrian and cyclist deaths per year :(
I imagine the road engineers that decide to make this just want to create as many future cyclist deaths as possible.
