I just realized my county built out trails instead of bike lanes
Instead of building bikelanes my county has opted for trails, which honestly is not a bad option. Or at the very least, better than nothing. The way they did it was just by turning a lot of the sidewalks into multi use paths, so it makes a lot of sense I didn't notice that I could use them.
There's quite a few of them, and it definitely makes me feel safer that I can just ride on the "sidewalk" on a lot of the busy streets.
I kind of wish they would advertise this shit more because I literally had no idea, it's like it's hiding in plain site on their website.
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The promotion of bike paths is a pretty big problem in my city too. I've been cycling here as my only means of transportation for almost 6 years now, and I'm still discovering new little trails occasionally.
Yeah man, I wish they'd just put up a big street sign or something that said "this is a trail!"
It's not a cycle path, it's a multi-use path. So anyone can use it, including cyclists. The difference here is that these paths look like sidewalks, and run along major streets/highways.
Think "big sidewalk" that you can cycle on.
Yeah, I wish the trails got built out more as well. I feel like it's a lack of promotion and large gaps between trails that make people not want to use them. Thankfully here they haven't banned e-bikes from trails (yet).