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Originally Posted by villages07
...or other heavily traveled major roads?
I ride a bike 4 or 5 times a week, casual pace, enjoying the scenary around the Villages. I either ride neighborhood streets, cart lane, or multi-modal path.
This is not a complaint...just a question -- I see many bike riders in the traffic lanes on Morse and Buena Vista, on heavily traveled parts of these two major thoroughfares. Many of these are serious looking cyclists but others look more casual than me. I know it's legal to ride there, but, it sure looks scary to me with all the auto traffic.
So, why does a cyclist ride on Morse or BV when there is a nicely paved multimodal path right there? The multimodal paths seem much safer than dealing with full size cars. Again, not complaining...just trying to understand the reasoning.
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Good point, villages 07. Florida law says autos must give bicyclists 3 feet of clearance. So, in order to pass safely the autos usually moves into the other lane. With the heavy traffic on the mentioned roadways a very dangerous situation can arise. I would like to think things might improve when the paths north of 466 are widened and repaved. But, as you pointed out. a lot of them will still use the streets.