Bike Lane Excerpts from Road One Powerpoint

RS Matt LCI

The Coalition of Arizona Bicyclists

RS Matt

This is a REAL bike lane

Bike lanes must have a sign on a pole, a painted symbol on the lane, an 4- 8 inch stripe adjacent to the traffic lane, and a minimum width of 4 feet. Unfortunately

“they” include the unrideable gutter pan, giving us three feet in reality.Anything else is a shoulder!

RS Matt

A Bike Route is a street that is supposed to be friendly to cyclists. It requires no stripe,

but may have a shoulder stripe

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Bike Lanes Often Become Trash Receptacles

Randy Victory

Litterally

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Is this a bike lane?

Nope! RS Matt

How ‘bout this?

‘fraid not!RS Matt

What does this say to motorists? What does it say to Bicyclists who

don’t know better?

RS Matt

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• These shoulder stripes are often confused by both bicyclists and motorists as genuine bike lanes. They are often too narrow to be used safely at common bicycling speeds, and they give cyclists and motorists the wrong conception of what constitutes sharing of the road. Many traffic professionals mistakenly still believe they are doing bicyclists a favor my placing these misleading stripes.

RS Matt