12-07-2017, 02:59 PM
(12-07-2017, 02:00 PM)Coke6pk Wrote:(12-07-2017, 01:36 PM)KevinL Wrote: I'm sorry, but if I've never seen a crossride before how am I supposed to know that's what this is?
The folks pictured have parked in a space reserved beside the roadway for a function other than throughput of vehicles. Without signage - which, somehow, is STILL MISSING - there is no straightforward way to intuit whether it is parking or a bike lane or whatever. As the vast majority of such spaces are for parking, and there are no signs forbidding it, drivers park.
As for the condition of the ground, can you see that from in your car? And do you worry about it, knowing the road has just reopened from being under construction?
I agree with Kevin 100%. If the "crossride" was highly-visable with bike logos going into the lane, I *might* feel sympathetic... but we can look at other roadways with lane markings over other markings leading to confusion.
If I have a parking lot and two spots are for bikes but I don't mark them in anyway except for a dotted line leading from a nearby MUT, how could I be mad at a car that parks there? The beef is with the city and/or contractor.
Unfortunately, you are one of the few who know its a bike lane (although all of us here at WRC know now).
Coke
As Gtwok said best "Ignorance of he law is not an excuse for breaking it. Could I leave my bike in the middle of the road and claim I didn't know I wan't allowed to do it?".
Crossrides were one of the well documented advertised features of the new HTA rules.
That being said, they're new, maybe have some sympathy. I could forgive someone for not knowing what a crossride is and thinking instead it is a crosswalk. But nobody should be thinking they are a parking lane. Obviously it goes through an intersection. I have zero sympathy for people in this situation, it's plainly obvious from the context in the photo that it is not for parking.
Plenty of drivers are willing to break the rules when they think they can get away with it and believe it causes no harm. This is essentially what the driver who drove up the trail/path/freight railway connection in uptown said to me yesterday.