David Op’t Hof: Utah needs to make bike lanes separate from busy roadways

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David Op’t Hof: Utah needs to make bike lanes separate from busy roadways
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Utah’s state-of-the-art bike lanes look very nice — and very dangerous.told of the death of a woman cyclist who was killed on Redwood Road in a crash with a semi. Think about that for a minute — a bicycle and a semi. Not a pretty picture. The cyclist always loses in a collision with a car or truck. We must do all that we can to keep those kinds of mishaps from happening — to keep people safe on the roadways.as an avid cyclist who always wore a helmet. She tried to be safe.

The Netherlands really promote cycling. Bike lanes over there are not in the roadways. They are on the side of the road where we put sidewalks. There is little chance of a car-bike collision with that arrangement. The Dutch have traffic signals for the bike lanes. They even have massive bicycle parking garages because so many people ride bikes to work. It is a very bike-friendly country as we have seen when traveling there.

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