Minneapolis Know the Road: Bike Lanes

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1. 4% of people cycling. While 4% is better than 0%, it is nothing even remotely close to even just 20%, let alone the 35% of most Dutch cities and towns.
2. That can't really be Minneapolis.  They didn't show a single bike blowing through a red light or stop sign!
3. +adamswood Actually, there are only cycle tracks where that will make cyclists safer. For most roads to be considered safe enough to have cars and bikes sharing is when the speed limit is 30 km/h, (18 mph) and a low enough volume of traffic. Of course, drivers will disobey the rules, so enforcing them is key. Making the road itself look too narrow or too many tight curves and making cars yield to whoever is to your right at intersections are standard, also making the parking area look very different from the driving and cycling area, like different colours, and using curb extensions at intersections and midblock crossings work. Bikeways are different in terms of width. Cycle tracks in North America are often 1.5 metres wide, or sometimes 1.8. There, cycle tracks are often a minimum of 2 metres wide, many are 2.5 meters wide, and some are 4 metres wide for two way cycling. 
4. SHARE THE ROAD WITH BIKES
   GIVE US 3 FEET WHEN PASSING
   SHARE THE ROAD WITH BIKES ALSO YIELD TO BIKES WHEN YOU CROSS BIKE LANES
    YIELD TO BIKES WHEN YOU CROSS BIKE LANES
5. Is these is grammatically incorrect. The decline of good grammar for 5 centuries. It should be are these. 
6. People can be taught to ride in traffic, they just don't want to. It's not a pleasant experience, so why should they? Anyone who thinks bikes & motor vehicles should mix has never ridden in a country with high quality separated bike paths. I agree this is a massive fail, but the solution here is to separate more not less. This is the only proven way to encourage non fred mass cycle use. Vehicular cyclists have had their chance to change things & failed miserably. Move along now your time is up.
7. yeah.... Im still going to keep avoiding the 1st ave bike lanes downtown. If someone opens their door, you don't have anywhere to go. Not to mention the people who park in them all the time or the pedestrians who think of the bike lane as a second sidewalk. I'll take my chances in traffic, honk all you want. 
8. brhino42, Amsterdam population 743,000; 25% of all trips by bike; cycling fatalities 6-7 per year. New York population 8,244,910; .6% of all trips by bike; cycling fatalaties 21 per year. And that's not counting the number of pedestrians killed by cars. Amsterdam residents substitute biking for DRIVING and parking in traffic. As bike use went up, car use and congestion went down. I don't think that computes to Amsterdam being much more dangerous. Facts not propaganda.
9. Es posible poner subtitulos en español, para poder compartir estas imagenes, o reproducir el video en español, para los latinos, por favor.
10. the embed code is incorrect. I get E.J. Henderson Tackles Illegal Guns. Please fix!!
11. Doesn't this just make you annoying. I've read the book.
12. You know what I find disturbing about your comment? The nit picking that seems to come with any discussion involving a "vehicular cyclist". To a great many people vehicular cycling implies riding among cars and so they assume you aren't a vehicular cyclist if you are in a lane. The author was in no way saying you didn't need to obey the rules of the road. If anything the vehicular cycling mantra needs to be dialed down a bit and deal with smart cycling no matter where you might ride.
13. What I find most disturbing about your comment is the idea that vehicular cycling is optional. Do you mean that when paint and pavement have been dedicated specifically dedicated to cyclists, they no longer have an obligation to obey the law or act like drivers of vehicles? That's whack. I mean, very telling point of view. And precisely the reason we need more bicycling education and fewer bike lanes.
14. I could not disagree more. Encouraging an activity without educating the participants is foolish. Believing that painting and striping makes cycling safer is foolish and dangerous. Consider Amsterdam: people ride an average of 1 to 2 miles per day at a rate of 7 to 8 mph. They substitute biking for walking the way Americans drive cars instead of riding bikes: to get less exercise. But despite being slow, biking in Amsterdam is more dangerous than biking in NYC. See past the propaganda.
15. Paint and striping may not make cycling safer, but it definitely encourages more people to ride. The vehicular cycling approach makes sense when there are not any dedicated facilities, but it is not the ideal and we shouldn't see it as the final answer. Look at Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where there are dedicated bike facilities galore and you have close to half of the population riding bikes.
16. Door-zone bike lanes = unsafe. Every person shown in this video is riding in the door-zone. This is considered "easier?" Have we have checked our brains at the door-zone? Sad. And the green lanes? Are on the right-hand side of right-turning traffic. Again, sad, stupid, mindless dependence on paint to think for us. STAY out of the buffer zone. Heaven forbid vehicles of different types should mix. Massive Phail, Minneapolis. Are you afraid people can't be taught to ride in traffic?
17. Hey, about that guy on 15th...may want to have a legal hand signal in an official video. LEFT arm, not right. 
18. I'm a biker that lives in North Minneapolis and people don't know how to drive around bikers... It's a shame black people. And yes I'm Black , So I can say that. 
19. Beep Beep get the hell outta my way!
20. My guess is Aristea Brady from WCCO.