The U.S. would drive you mad. Pun intended. But yeah, there's a lot of bike lanes without car/bike separation in U.S. cities. The best (worst?) example of this are lanes with sharrows.
This is madness for cyclist and driver. As a cyclist, I don't like basically taking up the whole line by riding right over the sharrow, which is what I'm supposed to do to avoid being doored. But then a car can't legally pass if there's a double yellow line. And yet they do pass in the U.S. in this case, because the average U.S. driver doesn't know this is illegal, they don't know it because the primary means of learning to drive: parents or family member > other people honking at you and you decide to change your behavior > traffic tickets. There's no mandatory 3rd party (government or private, accredited) school.
And on top of it, everywhere else there are no sharrows, increasingly people think cyclists are riding on those streets illegally, which is not true.
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This is madness for cyclist and driver. As a cyclist, I don't like basically taking up the whole line by riding right over the sharrow, which is what I'm supposed to do to avoid being doored. But then a car can't legally pass if there's a double yellow line. And yet they do pass in the U.S. in this case, because the average U.S. driver doesn't know this is illegal, they don't know it because the primary means of learning to drive: parents or family member > other people honking at you and you decide to change your behavior > traffic tickets. There's no mandatory 3rd party (government or private, accredited) school.
And on top of it, everywhere else there are no sharrows, increasingly people think cyclists are riding on those streets illegally, which is not true.