I ride up and down Wilson Street every day, have been doing so since I moved back to Madison, and did so for years before I left. When I rode into work the other day and saw the sharrows for the first time my reaction was confusion. I can't say that I have ever - not once - had an issue with automobiles on Wilson street.
We have dedicated striped or medianed bike lanes and we have dedicated bike (to be fair, multi-use) paths and then we have streets. There are only a handful of roadways in Madison upon which cyclists are not allowed to ride legally. On the remaining roadways cyclists have the legal right to ride and motorists have the legal obligation to share the road. The sharrows seem to offer a mixed message, or at least one which is counterintuitive and a little confusing to cyclist and motorist alike. They seem, to me, to be unecessary. Just my 2 cents. -- ......... __ o .........-\<, ......(O) (O)........... ...........................
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