Bike Path

[Jdarg]

I refuse to ride a bike from Seaside to Seagrove, and and don't walk if I can avoid it. It is insane and dangerous. I keep telling my mom that she will probably die on that bikepath, not from cancer, pneumonia, or other ailment, but from riding her trike on that stretch of bikepath!

 

[30A Skunkape]

I saw a near miss driving by Stinky's tonight. A family was biking west on the path, and someone turning into the parking lot almost hit them all.

 

[30ABandMan]

I bike and ride and I feel that a large part of this problem is that bikers often don't follow the rules of the road or common sense. Daily, I see bikers blow thru stop signs and cross walks without even thinking of stopping. Many times bikers and pedestrians will walk out of blind spots or not use the cross walks. That is jaywalking...I have no problem sharing the road when I'm in my truck or on my bike but I do have a problem with bikers who act like they're entitled or more important than a vehicle on the roadway. As a biker, you can't assume that you don't have to stop for any reason and that is often the case. Peeps get on the bike path and just ride without looking, they cross intersections at full speed.

Anywho...enough blah blah blah.
We all need to drive more carefully, I admit to having some OH S^)T!!! moments in my truck and on my bike.

 

[MaryAnne]

Thanks for starting this thread. I, for one, will be more aware when I pull out onto 30A in the future. I will also remind everyone else in my family to be aware.

 

[Mermaid]

I refuse to ride a bike from Seaside to Seagrove, and and don't walk if I can avoid it. It is insane and dangerous. I keep telling my mom that she will probably die on that bikepath, not from cancer, pneumonia, or other ailment, but from riding her trike on that stretch of bikepath!

I dunno about that. Your mom nearly took Merman and me out two weeks ago. We're lucky to be alive...she's one hot-roddin' Grandma!

(Just kidding. It was actually the two of us who were hogging the path in Seagrove Beach not the other way around, and we were only walking! ;-) )

 

[Miss Kitty]

Thanks for starting this thread. I, for one, will be more aware when I pull out onto 30A in the future. I will also remind everyone else in my family to be aware.

It is a good thread...knowledge is power. Remind me where the stop sign is located...before or past the bike path? Many times, I have had to remind Mr. K to not pull out to the street to check traffic w/o stopping and looking for people on the bike path. It is counterintuitive to how we drive elsewhere where there are no bike paths.

beachsteelers...did you get hurt?

 

[30A Skunkape]

While on the topic of pedestrians/bicycles vs motor vehicles, what is the law regarding yielding to pedestrians crossing 30-A? I have had to literally stomp the brakes a few times in Blue Mountain where the speed limit is 35 mph and people will amble out into the hwy 15 yards or so ahead.

 

[30ABandMan]

It is a good thread...knowledge is power. Remind me where the stop sign is located...before or past the bike path? Many times, I have had to remind Mr. K to not pull out to the street to check traffic w/o stopping and looking for people on the bike path. It is counterintuitive to how we drive elsewhere where there are no bike paths.

beachsteelers...did you get hurt?

That is my problem, most of the bike path is before any stop sign and there isn't enough visual clearance to pull out onto 30A w/o creeping up. The bikers/pedestrians act as though they have to yield to nothing as long as they are on the bike path. In effect, the county created a frontage road with the bike path and users should use the same caution that they would driving. I do look out for peeps using the path but in places like Seaside they can just seem to pop out of nowhere.

 

[jodiFL]

I bike and ride and I feel that a large part of this problem is that bikers often don't follow the rules of the road or common sense. Daily, I see bikers blow thru stop signs and cross walks without even thinking of stopping. Many times bikers and pedestrians will walk out of blind spots or not use the cross walks. That is jaywalking...I have no problem sharing the road when I'm in my truck or on my bike but I do have a problem with bikers who act like they're entitled or more important than a vehicle on the roadway. As a biker, you can't assume that you don't have to stop for any reason and that is often the case. Peeps get on the bike path and just ride without looking, they cross intersections at full speed. ...

I hope the one that ran into the side of my truck the other day at the stop sign on 30A/395 is reading this. They even lowered the height and adjusted the sign there to let cyclist know that they have to stop at that intersection but as you say this one just barreled on thru it. I was going west/ turning north there and after waiting for about 5 bikes I go to turn and BAMM... another decides to play catch up to the others and runs into the side (rear passenger door). Probably the same type of person that speeds up to try and catch a light and ends up running it while in a car.

 

[NoHall]

While on the topic of pedestrians/bicycles vs motor vehicles, what is the law regarding yielding to pedestrians crossing 30-A? I have had to literally stomp the brakes a few times in Blue Mountain where the speed limit is 35 mph and people will amble out into the hwy 15 yards or so ahead.

Pedestrians have the right of way in a crosswalk in most states in the U.S. Motor vehicles yield to bikes and pedestrians; bikes yield to pedestrians. Bikers are supposed to walk bikes in a pedestrian crosswalk unless otherwise indicated, but they may ride with the flow of traffic in intersections. It is usually recommended that bikes walk across intersections with 4 or more lanes.