08-21-2017, 08:35 AM
(08-18-2017, 08:43 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: I've started to notice a bad habit drivers are developing around the Ion right-of-ways where the curb is roll-over/flush with the pavement. I've experienced it both as a driver and cyclist.
For example, heading WB on Allen at Caroline, drivers get impatient for vehicles turning left (SB) on Caroline and are using the Ion right-of-way to go around stopped vehicles/bikes to continue straight on Allen or turn right (NB) on Caroline.
Something similar happens on NB on King at Allen. Vehicles get impatient with bikes taking the lane or cars turning left in to driveways and use the Ion right-of-way as a passing lane.
Hopefully it will be dealt with through enforcement, but it wouldn't surprise me if the region ignored it entirely, because "oh poor drivers."
I did see one example where I was glad a car went onto the rapidway, however: on King, an ambulance was coming south towards Downtown. It came up on a car in the driving lane between Moore and Victoria, and so the car pulled onto the rapidway to let the ambulance pass, pulling back onto the roadway immediately afterwards.