The City of Lincoln has a new website dedicated to information about bicycling in Lincoln. It contains material about trails, laws, and even bicycle maintenance.
In general, Lincoln is an OK place to ride a bike. We're way behind on providing safe and effective bike lanes -- I don't consider the existing bike lanes Downtown to be particularly "safe" or "effective" -- but the city's extensive trails system makes it easy to cover a lot of ground around town. Some drivers are idiots when it comes to accommodating bicyclists on the roads; at the same time, some bicyclists are responsible for building driver frustration because they ride unsafely and/or don't follow the laws. We could do a lot better there.
As a runner who regularly uses the trails system, my main request for bicyclists is that they announce their passes with a bell, horn, or by calling out "on your left". It drives me nuts when bicyclists startle slower trail users by silently flying by.
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