Young athletic dudes like myself alone don't get better infrastructure. The more kids and parents and older people and etc. riding, the more biking just becomes the best way to get around. So yeah, it's great to see everyone out riding, especially in the winter. And I commute on a bluebike, so even though I go relatively fast with them, it's not like I'm racing for my commute.

This project being a quick-build, the city didn't do any curb modifications. The curb-cuts are where the crosswalk markings are and not on the other side, so they can't just change the markings. But I'd still recommend emailing the city/Stephen Meuse/DPW about that so that they could try to do that small construction project separately.

As someone that commutes daily on Garden and the little bit of Brattle into Harvard Sq., but only rarely goes down the rest of Brattle (the newly done stuff, etc.)...

If there is missing signage, contact Stephen Meuse at the city, he/they are super receptive to small changes like that.

However, I've never had an issue with people on Garden. On the contrary, I regularly have issues of people not looking both ways entering Brattle in dangerous ways. And the bo-directional lanes lead to drivers not understanding and driving and parking in the bike lanes. Just this weekend (rare case for me in this section) saw someone driving down the new section of Brattle bi-directional lane. So from what I have seen, the Brattle style is way more confusing to drivers.

During the public meetings, someone (I think a student) brought up the desire of students from the Radcliff quad to not cross the road to use the inbound lanes. I thought that was a really interesting point and the city looked at it. But bi-direction at Huron would have created chaos and change between 2 lanes and bi-directional is a terrible experience. So I support what they settled on with split lanes the whole way. I do see students going the wrong way frequently enough, but they have always yielded to me, so I don't think it is that bad of a problem.

I think snow clearance of separated bike lanes vs. bi-directional might be a big issue for some cities, but I found Garden to be perfectly fine so far (with the limited winter that it has been). Cambridge does have the right tools and a real plan for separated bike lane plowing, so for us I don't think there's a real difference between the two options.

FWIW, I love the Brattle lanes too, but Garden used to be terrible and I avoided it unless it was late at night and there would be no traffic. Now I use it daily because it is the most direct route for me. I see parents with kids all the time on it. I think that's pretty great and transformative for a quick-build project. And, as mentioned above, I have more problems on the short stretch of Brattle I do regularly than the much longer Garden.

How do you think Brattle is good but Garden is bad? The Garden lanes are transformative

I wanted it to be good, was excited when it came, but it just... wasn't

I mean, over a third of households in Cambridge already don't own a car, so 🤷‍♂️

Parking requirements were created throughout the US as a form of racial segregation after the supreme court outlawed racially based restrictive covenants. Everything else is not smarter for keeping them.