This photo, taken in Vancouver, Washington, is the second installment of our continuing coverage of signs in bike lanes.
What’s up Vancouver? Have your city employees grown so complacent in their jobs that they can’t even muster the energy or thought power to figure a way around this mind-numbing challenge?
Sigh.
I hate you Vancouver. You exist so close to Portland, yet you’re still so far away.
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Get over it bikers. you guys are a road nuisance. if you want to be treated like cars start acting like it. stop running stop signs and stop pedaling to the front of long traffic lines, if you want respect stop disobeying the law.
well.. it would be hard to see if it was on the sidewalk.. just ride around it. And it is probably not city employees that put it up. It’s the construction crew/surveyors/hydro etc.
The City of Vancouver has actually been doing a quite a bit lately to improve its bike-friendliness, including most recently posting navigational aids for bikers all over the city and parts of the outlying region. These signposts give directions to common points of interest (trails, transit centers, malls, etc.) and approximate distances, and can prove useful to even those more familiar with the area by pointing out alternate, safer routes.
As for Gary’s concern, I’m not really sure to what he’s referring. Most (if not all) of the bikers I’ve met (either personally or on the road) have been courteous and fastidious about following the law as written — when you’re deliberately exposing yourself to the close proximity of fast-moving traffic, you *have* to be, lest you wind up dead.
James, I basically agree that this particular situation may be unique. As a survey tech I know that you can’t block the sidewalk(especially the handicap ramp area) nor put the sign in the street. Being a cyclist I would likely have taken the time to strap the sign to the no parking sign giving cyclists some room w/out taking away the sidewalk access. Gary, I agree only in part. Some bikers are complete tools. They don’t wear helmets, ride opposite to traffic, run lights, etc. The majority do not, in fact as, Peter commented, we need to do it correctly to stay alive! Also as a cyclist we have (check your DMV book) the right to travel up alongside cars to the intersection and then proceed. This can also be done to make a left hand turn from a multi-lane street. Perhaps you need to go out and ride a bike to work for one week to become enlightened to our precarious existence.