We don't know which direction he was headed. If he was going east or west and across highland, he may have been riding in the right lane and NOT hugging the curb, but still got stuck behind a parked car on the other side. The 2500 block of Univ Ave - just west of Highland - has a parking restriction in the right lane headed east until 8:30 am. The right lane headed west has no parking restrictions, but there is also no parking in the right lane of the 2400 block.
As a frequent rider of that block - pretty much every single day year round - I know that even at 10 am there are often no parked cars in the eastbound land as you approach the intersection. Then there is a bus stop - also no parked cars. BUT, once you cross Highland there are cars parked going westbound, and halfway down the block eastbound there are parked cars. This means that if you cross Highland going either east or west, you may have a completely clear right lane, but then have to transition to taking the lane to avoid getting stuck behind a parked car. The road design is definitely better than before they re-striped it. There are either sharrows or bike lanes the entire length, so both drivers and bicyclists know to share the road. But those transitions between one type of treatment or the other can be tough. Robbie On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 9:23 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree, don't hug the curb. > > But its worth noting that this stretch of Old Univ. is goofy. Heading > west, you have: > * a real bike lane > * bike lane turns into 'right-turn-only except possibly if you're on a > bike' lane > * across the intersection, about 10 feet of 'bike lane' that makes not > sense at all, > * forcing you to merge into a single 'sharrows' lane. > > Its an improvement from when I was hit there 5 years ago, but the abrupt > changes can be confusing. > >
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