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Originally Posted by oldpotatoe
'Traffic engineers' see bicycles as a problem to solve, not any kind of 'solution'.
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This is correct. I have a friend who owns a business that sells hi tech traffic monitor equipment (radar, data collecting, etc) for highways, roads and MUT paths and trails. A few years ago he asked me to go to a conference with him to meet traffic engineers from around the US. He introduced me to the group as " a cyclist who rides 10000 miles a year". These people treated me like I was an alien that just stepped off the saucer. They seemed curious to actually meet a cyclist. And these are the people who design our roads and trails.