Why staying in the bike lane isn’t always easy
posted August 21st, 2008 by anna
Ah yes…. a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially when it comes to bike policy.
[Via The Goat and Treehugger]
Ah yes…. a picture is worth a thousand words. Especially when it comes to bike policy.
[Via The Goat and Treehugger]
August 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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August 22nd, 2008 at 1:41 pm
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”.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
This just screams “PRE-EMPLOYMENT DRUG TESTING” to me.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:34 am
*facepalm*
August 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am
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…
August 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
*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.
August 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
The sign should’ve read “WATCH FOR SIGNS”.
September 7th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
At least there is a bicycle lane! I’d dodge signs over cars any day!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:25 am
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.