Ah yes…. a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially when it comes to bike policy.
[Via The Goat and Treehugger]
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Amazing. As a surveyor who often works alongside road crews I am amazed that a crew would put the sign there instead of in the correct position in the neutral area between the bike and car lanes! As an avid cyclist I think “just one more example of how seriously most folks take commuting”.
This just screams “PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING” to me.
*facepalm*
I also find it amusing that, with an entire car lane’s worth of space between the bike lane and the right-hand car lane, they still thought it was necessary to put the sign up at all. The same flatworms that put the sign where they did must have come up with that stroke of genius…
*sigh* My daily reality. Over the fifteen years I’ve commuted by bike, I can’t count how many times I’ve found construction signs in the bike lane. A personal favorite happened ten years ago in Seattle:
I was riding downhill at dawn, heading toward one of Seattle’s many drawbridges. A construction worker had decided to park his gray car in the bike lane (*gnashing teeth*), on a gray and wet November morning on top of gray concrete. With water all over my glasses, I didn’t see the car until the last possible moment and was faced with a Faustian choice in a split second. 1. Either slam into the car, because I couldn’t stop in time, or 2. Make a wild break into traffic traveling upwards of 35 mph and take my chances with the metal grating on the car side of the bridge.
My bike zigzagged across the grating, but thankfully I didn’t go down and get mowed over by the car that was eight feet behind me and honking. And what did the city and the contractor do when I complained?
Yeah, nothing. As usual.
The sign should’ve read “WATCH FOR SIGNS”.
At least there is a bicycle lane! I’d dodge signs over cars any day!
i think the the irony in this sign’s placement stands as a beacon of how messed up PCH is for bikers in general. I know that the south county cities are slowly working towards a better ride (after like a million people have died on it) but really, it’s unfair how bad it is. This is one of just a few stretches where you can actually feel safe.
@Jeff Moulton: Or not. I’m pretty baked right now and I still know a really bad idea when I see it.
@jessie: Just the PCH? Not all of California? The motorists there are world-class professional retards.
here is another one. http://www.wendmag.com/blog/2009/05/22/bike-lane-gets-no-respect-again/
that sign probably shouldn’t be there even if there wasn’t a bike lane there… at least not without pylons around it.