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Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

Wayne Pein — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:32:17 GMT

The planners in Portland Maine have already demonstrated an inability to paint AASHTO compliant width bike lanes, instead striping substandard width. It's

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

nrphillipsyh — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:44:32 GMT

John and others, Thanks for your extensive reply. I had already seen AASHTO - given the frequent and continuing violations I see locally, I am reaching John

Re: LA Times Articles

opeapea — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:09:23 GMT

Serge: "I agree with all of the above except the last sentence. Given that most bicyclists don't know how to avoid right hooks and just maintain course and

Re: LA Times Articles

Bob Shanteau — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:08:44 GMT

I forwarded JohnB's question about whether a stripe makes a bicyclist safer to Dan Gutierrez, and his analysis makes so much sense, I thought I would post it

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

Peter Rosenfeld — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:30:00 GMT

Misreading JF's statement gave me a talking point idea for when I discuss bikelanes with our local paint&path folk: Bike Lanes protect you from a rare

Re: LA Times Articles

JohnB — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:38:56 GMT

Thank you Serge and others for that cogent explanation. I was thinking about this on the way home Friday and have come up with another related way of

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

John Forester — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:36:39 GMT

As you wrote, bike-lane stripes violate speed positioning when cyclists are going faster than motorists. They also violate destination positioning when

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

JohnB — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT

Despite John F's insistence that there is no point in talking more about this to the planners, I'm stubbornly still not ready to give up. (Credit my youthful

Re: LA Times Articles

Serge Issakov — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:58:55 GMT

... How do you know that? The missing data is how far from the edge of the road they drive when bicyclists are not present. ... I'm assuming that the

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

John Forester — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:24:46 GMT

Look, just give up bothering to talk about bike lanes at intersections. Nothing reasonable can be concluded about the things. Just accept that they are

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

JohnB — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:40:25 GMT

One more thing: The Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia had a link to a summary of Delaware bicycle related law,

Analysis of ... cyclist fatalities: London

opeapea — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:40:19 GMT

I think this group will find this report

Re: LA Times Articles

opeapea — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:39:56 GMT

... I think there is a typo here somewhere and that what you were saying is further passing distances can be translated into meaning people were more aware of

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

JohnB — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:39:49 GMT

Hello, Most people on this list are more knowledgeable than I am, but I'll go ahead and give you my impression anyway, because only Bob has so far (although

Re: More advice in discussion about intersection bike lanes

Bob Bayn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:10:16 GMT

NRPhillips@... asked about the design requirements of bike lane stripes on approach to intersections, gave a couple examples of local issues and