David Auker

Doug Sears wrote:

(...)I don't understand the use of 

the bike box. If you're over on the right in the bike lane, why (and how) 

would you move 6 feet or so to the left to be in the box while stopped, 

when you just have to move back to the right into the lane as soon as the 

light changes?

  --Doug Sears

  

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I feel much the same way...however, it looks like that is the plan: the
bikes get very visible by being in front of traffic:



http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/index.cfm?c=eghbh



(You're going to be "in front" anyway, but it also might be a
place for "overspill" of riders in case of too many to fit in the
single bike lane.)  It seems slightly excessive...I see it as doing two
things:

1. making cycling safer ...and attractive to more riders (very good!)


2. pissing off auto drivers that cyclists are getting a bit more
   than their fair share of the road.

All in all, the City Of Portland is to be commended for thinking of our
safety!



-David



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----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Jonathan Maus" <jonathan@bikeportland.org>

To: "OBRA list list" <obra@list.obra.org>

Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 7:17 PM

Subject: [OBRA Chat] Portland's new bike box/green bike lane

Today, the city of Portland made good on a promise to try and make our

roads safer after the two tragedies last October.

here are some of the first photos of the new bike box and colored

lane.  This one is at SE Hawthorne and 7th and is the first of 14

similar intersection treatments.

http://tinyurl.com/2pfeup

(note: the actual bike box has not been filled in with green paint

yet...that is expected to be finished on monday).

cheers,

--Jonathan

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