On 10/09/2009 02:32 PM, David Waugh wrote:
In the E. Mifflin bike boulevard discussion between the Tenney Lapham
neighborhood and Traffic Engineering, sharrows were described as
being for streets with very little auto traffic.
In Seattle, sharrows are widely used on four-lane arterials (such as
35th NE, Stone Way, many others). These are 30mph streets, generally
with on-road parking, and the sharrows are placed in the leftmost half
of the outer driving lane. That encourages bicyclists to ride well clear
of parked cars with opening doors and makes it clear to drivers that
bicyclists in that part of the lane are expected and authorized to be
there. I don't ever recall seeing one on a residential street. There is
an explicit distinction between arterials and residential streets that
is less pronounced in Madison.
I like them.
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