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[–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Shared paths are more dangerous to use if you're going at any speed. Motorists aren't looking for cyclists when driving over them into side roads and driveways, and cyclists lose priority at every side road.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Quite so. My city in Australia has excellent shared paths, but the one paralleling one main road is the only one where I have had a close call with a car

    On that route I ride on the road so I'm seen and cars can avoid me

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  • [–] -2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They're probably not looking for you whizzing up the middle of them either.

    At the end of the day you're a squishy meat sack and they're in a two ton metal box, albeit in central London, one travelling at about 5 mph. If you feel safer doing that then you do you. I'm just saying I wouldn't.

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