07-14-2017, 06:51 AM
(07-13-2017, 11:19 PM)panamaniac Wrote: So this actually touches on something I was wondering about this week. You often see cars stopped (and even parked) at the curb and blocking the painted bicycle lane, as in the posted link. Are they in fact supposed to stop outside the painted line, where stopping is permitted? I have never seen anyone stop that way, which is not surprising.
Shouldn’t be allowed. It’s a traffic lane, period.
If it were up to me I would install those little plastic flags (like bollards, but with no actual stopping ability — they would just bend over) along all the bike lane lines to clearly tell cars that they have no business at the curb ever for even one second.
And all major roads would eventually be re-built with segregated bike lanes, eliminating the problem entirely.