Monday, May 16, 2016

Advantages Of Green Bike Lane Markings

By Timothy West


Transportation is a necessity for everyone. Without it, going to the place you want to go will be super hard, or even impossible, unless you can teleport or fly. So you take the bus or ride a train. If you are lucky, you have a car, but then you would still have to pay for gas. Whatever option requires spending money.

Although these kinds of transportation are very common worldwide, some people unfortunately cannot afford buying a ticket or purchasing gasoline. You cannot exactly walk in going to school or work, except for those people with ridiculously lucky locations. Resort to investing on a bike instead. Just make sure your place has green bike lane markings.

This particular item has loads and loads of benefits that come along with it. All you need to do to get to your location is shed some energy and sweat. Free ride plus getting some workout. That is a double win situation right there.

Because of the free ride, going anywhere just using your bicycle sounds like a dream. But there are two kinds of dreams. Sweet dreams and nightmares. In an urban city, fast paced cars, along with huge buses, and inconsiderate drivers, think that they own the streets. Which then results to cyclists going unnoticed. It is a very common cause of accidents.

Lane markings are installed on the roads to ensure the safety of these cyclists who drive side by side other cars. These marks acts as the bicycle lanes. These helps riders to travel straight ahead and do not need to give way to traveling cars. The same colors should be applied at all bike line markings so that all motorists will not have a hard time in identifying it.

Because of this, motorists will continue to stay in their designated lanes, which will lessen on road accidents between wheeled vehicles and cars. They will not be permitted to cross into solid wheeled vehicle lanes unless they plan to turn to intersecting road ways and parking. This will also encourage them to follow regular traffic rules.

This is also precludes driver from parking their cars alongside the highway. The bicycle lane marks also act as an assurance that the side of streets should not be occupied by idle cars. Illegal parking causes traffic congestion because the highway space is lessened.

The bright colored green markings also increases the visibility of the cyclist. Sometimes, mostly during at night, cyclists are not that visible when on the route. Despite the tail lights installed at the back of it, it is not enough to be seen from a far distance. Knowing that the cyclists are present along the road ahead of time can spare a lot of precious lives.

Lastly, these bike lanes also keep the cyclists off the sidewalks. If bike lanes do not exist in your place, just get used to saying goodbye to a safe sidewalk. Since most cyclists see the route as a danger to them, they ride their bikes on the sidewalk instead. Although this is very dangerous to the pedestrians, cyclists will not yield because staying on the road does not make them feel safe either.




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