re: #93 William Barnett-Lewis

“These large truck operators, they are professional drivers they can actually make tighter turns than these standards normally say they would.

That boy knows as much about Commercial Driving as a GOP Senator does about climatology, though that may be a bit unfair to the senator.

And who knows what he might know about operating a bicycle.

Falbo proposes a waiting area, just past the crosswalk where cyclists can stop. Cars will stop behind the crosswalk, bikes will halt ahead of it, and pedestrians are free to cross the street uninterrupted. This has the added benefit of making cyclists more visible to turning cars, and it’s a safe space for cyclists to wait while wanting to turn left. Instead of merging into the flow of traffic, riders can to a two-step left turn, and wait for a signal to turn.

He’s proposing that cyclists behave like pedestrians in order to make his design work.