07-30-2018, 08:41 AM
My most frequent issue is actually pedestrians at this point. They'll be walking down the lane at me, look down at a bicycle symbol (if they're lucky enough to be near one), then back up at me, and not move at all, forcing me to jump into traffic or pedestrians on the sidewalk. Frankly, this is an argument for a fully green bikeway, if pedestrians are making it a conflict zone (which is why intersections will be green), then the entirety should be green. Still also the issue of the parking spaces, where they start and end, cars will use that triangular portion for half their car, and the lane for the other half. That segment (which only serves to let a driver who doesn't know how to parallel park drive in or out more easily from the first or last spot) really needs something physical to stop cars from doing this, either a thin but high obstacle, which doesn't intrude into either the bike or the car space, or else put a bike corral in the parking lead-in, because no one should be parking there anyway.