Therese Ladell said: Why not yellow for caution? Green does not mean caution to me.
---------- Green is the color recently recommended for bike lanes and bike boxes by a national committee that works on standardizing such things. Portland started out using blue. And Madison, if you have not already noticed, used red at first (well, at first they weren't painted at all, so they were hardly noticed by motorists, but when they were painted, they were painted red). The idea is that there would be consistency in say, Portland, Madison , NY, Chicago, San Francisco, (all places who have painted bike lanes and/or bike boxes), for the same reason that, say, we couldn't decide that our stop signs should be hi visibility yellow or something other than red. Portland's brochure on bike boxes says this: Although Portland is known for its blue bike lanes, federal transportation officials thought blue could be confusing since it is also the color used to indicate disabled parking. A national committee that works on such issues has recommended that green be the standard color for bicycle lanes and boxes. From: http://www.fcgov.com/bicycling/pdf/bike_box.pdf For an interesting (really, it is) read on how these designs came about, as well as many of the other things that make Portland so bike-friendlycame about, I suggest Joyride, by Mia Birk (who had a very large part in bringing those things to fruition in Portland before moving on. http://www.miabirk.com/
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