Yes, the University-Randall intersection was where the crash occurred. I saw
a bike laying on the sidewalk/curb in front of Subway, on the SW corner. The
car with the broken windshield was southbound on Randall between University
and Johnson. It wasn't too hard to figure out what happened.

As to the WRONG WAY sign, those have been added all along the counter-flow
lane divider within the past two years. I am thrilled that they are finally
there, because way too many bicyclists tried to use the eastbound lane as a
two-way bike lane. There is barely enough room for the eastbound bicyclists,
much less people going westbound.

I think the signs along with actual paint in the eastbound lane, have
significantly cut down on the number of people going the wrong way.

As to the height of the sign, I've never noticed them obscuring my view of
eastbound bicyclists, but as I mentioned earlier, I rarely make a left off
that part of University, so maybe I'm the wrong person to ask. I do know
that drivers are at all range of heights, both because of their natural
sitting height, and the height of the vehicle seat. We all know that large
SUV driver sit much higher than people in small cars. I agree that putting
the signs very high would put them out of the sight line of many drivers (I
have the same experience of drivers not noticing the lane restriction signs
around the Square.) Moving them only a bit would probably only change which
drivers' view was blocked.
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