Am I the only one who has noticed that building bike lanes to make cycling in city traffic safe is a lot like putting filter tips on cigarettes to make smoking tobacco safe? A cosmetic change isn’t going to change the fact that for traffic, the bicycle is a fatally flawed product from the start.
My car has hard metal floorboards to protect my legs; hard metal doors to protect me in a side collision; seat belts and air bags to protect my face and ribs in case of a front collision; upholstered seat backs to protect my spine; a roof to protect me when the weather turns bad; and four wide tires arranged in a rectangle on two axles for maximum stability.
