Bike Lanes!

May. 8th, 2010 05:24 pm
[identity profile] boywonder.livejournal.com posting in [community profile] davis_square
So, I've noticed a lot of bike lanes popping up on the streets of Somerville lately. While I wholeheartedly applaud the effort, they seem to me to have been done haphazardly. Kinda like they're almost in the middle of the car lane? On Powderhouse Blvd. and Cameron Ave. for example, there seems to be barely enough room, if clearly not enough room, for a car to safely pass a cyclist in the new bike lanes. Has anyone else seen them? It's like, maybe if they had moved them closer to the sidewalk a foot or so, there would be plenty of room for bikes and cars, but it seems the city made an error in it's effort...

Date: 2010-05-08 11:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lyonesse.livejournal.com
from what i gather, those symbols (of a bicyclist, specifically *without* a lane marker) are called something else ("sharrows"?) and are intended to remind people to share the lane with the bikes safely, rather than isolate cars and bikes into separate areas.

kind of like, say, crosswalks -- you don't expect cars not to be in them, but you don't expect pedestrians not to be in them, and the signage means you're supposed to check.

Date: 2010-05-09 12:31 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] modlin.livejournal.com
Indeed, sharrows (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_lane_marking).

Date: 2010-05-13 02:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] charlwoo.livejournal.com
It sounds like the OP meant sharrows instead of bike lanes.

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