>> My first reaction was "a LeCar? A Renault effin' LeCar?"
> ...or perhaps a Kenosha Gremlin without the stripes ;-)
=v= There were ongoing experiments with bike stencils that
would show position (in the lane, outside the door zone)
and direction. First try was the standard person-on-bike
stencil with an arrow outline around it, piloted in San
Francisco and Chicago, but it was not IMHO clearly visible
what it was supposed to mean. Some called it the "guy in
house (on a bike)" stencil.
=v= A bike advocate from Chicago visited France and saw a
chevron stencil used on streets, and yes, Renault uses the
same graphic in their logo. Combining this with a larger,
more visible bike stencil yielded the sharrow.
=v= Using green paint to indicate bikes is another thing
that was going on in France, and after I visited, I lobbied
for green paint in the U.S. For a short while, there were
green person-on-bike-in-house stencils in San Francisco,
but these used a darker green and were even less visible
than the white ones.
=v= A very bright green paint is now being used for bike
lanes and boxes in Portland, San Francisco, and New York.
San Francisco is experimenting with green bike lanes that
have alternating squares of green at intersections, hoping
to indicate that a car could/should merge to take a right
turn (to avoid the right-hook). They've also recently
painted white sharrows on bright green backgrounds.
<_Jym_>
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