Bikies, I would suggest a good location for sharrows is on the capitol square to encourage bicyclists to take the lane and not bike so close to the parked cars in the outer lane.
On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 8:07 PM, S. Morris Rose <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > -- Mark N. Shahan ------ __o 607 Piper Drive ------- _`\<,_ Madison, WI 53711-1338 ---- (*)/ (*) (608) 274-9367 [email protected]
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