@ascentale @bikenite
#A7 #BikeNite
I think resurfacing streets makes them less safe/encourages cars to go faster - I've seen this in my neighborhood with higher speeds on the newly resurfaced streets, and those intersections feeling riskier.
I'm not sure if fixing individual potholes has the same impact and I've definitely been injured by potholes while biking. It's also similar to the 'cars double parked in bike lanes' vs 'cars double parked in a street with no bike lanes' where the size of the street and amount of swerving bikes& cars do also changes the risk profile. Like if there's a bike lane that cars are parked in so cyclists are expected to swerve in & out of faster traffic, that's riskier than a street with no bike lane with cars double parked blocking car lanes, because all traffic is slowed. A pothole in a bike lane with fast car traffic next to it is worse than a pothole in a shared road, and a pothole in a car lane (or a speed bump) that has cars swerving into the bike lane is even worse.