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chessie4905 · October 04, 2021, 04:33:20 PM

everything you did or didn't want to know about our Interstate highway system.
I didn't know bicycle lanes were allowed in certain areas. Saw this in Ca., Or., or Wa. Dont recall which.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.cfm#question9

Tedsoldbus · October 04, 2021, 04:42:58 PM

Speaking of Interstates, I had been out of it for a 14 years. Last trip in the bus, feeling more comfy driving it, I started looking at cars passing me. Not enough we now have 2 tv screens on the dash of our cars. Probably every 4th car was texting. I am wondering if we have we always been a "You can't tell me what I can/can't do" America? Or has it always been that way and I just wasn't paying attention?
Not bitchin' Just an observation. That scares me driving....
Thinking of welding railroad rails around the bus at car level.

dtcerrato · October 04, 2021, 05:04:19 PM

Too much weight, just tough it out.

luvrbus · October 04, 2021, 05:24:23 PM

Quote from: chessie4905 on October 04, 2021, 04:33:20 PM
everything you did or didn't want to know about our Interstate highway system.
I didn't know bicycle lanes were allowed in certain areas. Saw this in Ca., Or., or Wa. Dont recall which.

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/faq.cfm#question9

You see it in AZ and Idaho too we have friggn bike lanes every where in Scottsdale

windtrader · October 05, 2021, 09:12:12 AM

There are indeed some sections of CA freeway where bicycles are allowed. Seems to be where there there is no other public road access. I lived for 30 years where the nearest freeway access has such a section.

Somehow I just knew that was the case but when posted here it piqued my interest to recollect the specific signage. No wonder it was obscure, never is it stated bicycles are allowed, just the opposite. How's this for it's OK to ride your bike on the freeway. LOL

Crap - just read it again. I guess the coppers could say an e-bike is illegal and not a bicycle.

Iceni John · October 05, 2021, 09:53:09 AM

Many years ago when I rode my bicycle across the US, I had to ride on interstate highways in several western states simply because there were no practical alternate routes for bicyclists. I remember riding for many miles on the shoulder in Wyoming and Montana, and apart from the shredded remnants of truck tires it wasn't bad at all. Next year I'll do a short tour from Albuquerque back to Southern California, and the recommended route uses I-40 whenever old Route 66 is unavailable. Bicyclists are allowed to ride down I-15's Cajon Pass, but there's no damn way I'll be doing that; there's a perfectly good alternate route through Hesperia that I'll take instead. On I-5 in northern San Diego County bicyclists are allowed to ride on the shoulder if the Marines have closed Camp Pendleton, the usual bike route, during one of their exercises there.

John

belfert · October 05, 2021, 12:57:37 PM

I am surprised that bicycles are allowed on some sections of I-80 in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. I see the signs that state Bicycles must exit. I doubt I would ever be brave enough to ride a bicycle on the shoulder of a highway with 80 MPH traffic!

6805eagleguy · October 05, 2021, 07:32:57 PM

Quote from: belfert on October 05, 2021, 12:57:37 PM
I am surprised that bicycles are allowed on some sections of I-80 in Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada. I see the signs that state Bicycles must exit. I doubt I would ever be brave enough to ride a bicycle on the shoulder of a highway with 80 MPH traffic!

I agree lol. 'Shredded remnants of truck tires' Yipes I'd just be wondering when one would take me out 😉

windtrader · October 05, 2021, 09:23:36 PM

Having personally experienced it, it is a startling experience. You just need to pedal faster to get off quicker. $:-\$

chessie4905 · October 06, 2021, 08:35:55 AM

give them time. For safety sake, they'll reduce speed on interstate roads that have bike lanes to maybe 45.

lvmci · October 06, 2021, 09:19:54 AM

US95 near Searchlight, NV as wide as an interstate, in a wide open valley, has a bike lane used by treking bicyclists from LV Valley. A box truck delivery driver, high on some kind of speed wiped out several cyclists and injured several more at freeway speeds, while they were in the bike lane. Not a smart idea...

luvrbus · October 06, 2021, 05:34:24 PM

Quote from: lvmci on October 06, 2021, 09:19:54 AM
US95 near Searchlight, NV as wide as an interstate, in a wide open valley, has a bike lane used by treking bicyclists from LV Valley. A box truck delivery driver, high on some kind of speed wiped out several cyclists and injured several more at freeway speeds, while they were in the bike lane. Not a smart idea...

If you ride a bike on a Interstate ride the ones with a key and a engine,bikes are a PITA in Scottsdale on Sat and Sun you see large groups of 50 or more not in the bike lane but in the traffic lane and it takes for ever to pass those without hitting one or more

windtrader · October 06, 2021, 05:44:21 PM

Quote from: luvrbus on October 06, 2021, 05:34:24 PM

If you ride a bike on a Interstate ride the ones with a key and a engine,bikes are a PITA in Scottsdale on Sat and Sun you see large groups of 50 or more not in the bike lane but in the traffic lane and it takes for ever to pass those without hitting one or more

Awesome! Get more bikes, less cars!

chessie4905 · October 07, 2021, 08:31:29 AM

need to install Jersey barriers whever they are OR charge them toll. OR get them the hell off the interstates. Next thing will be mobility scooters.

luvrbus · October 07, 2021, 11:39:56 AM

Quote from: chessie4905 on October 07, 2021, 08:31:29 AM
need to install Jersey barriers whever they are OR charge them toll. OR get them the hell off the interstates. Next thing will be mobility scooters.

We have problems with golf carts AZ license the things to drive on streets, bikes are faster in speed