Wednesday, March 10, 2010

How Bike Lanes can teach people

I haven't posted much lately, sorry about that. I'll try to keep this one short. Basically I just saw this video on StreetFilms (at this address) and wanted to point it out:


Obviously the point of this infrastructure is to demonstrate to bikers how to avoid crossing railroad tracks at an obtuse angle, which can cause a crash. At the same time, it indicates to auto drivers that bikers are more likely to take the lane in that spot and makes them more aware of the danger.

What I would like to see is sharrows marked at intersections indicating the correct positioning for every possible bike turn, left, straight and right to teach both car drivers and bikers where bikers should be positioned for any certain turn.

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