Matthew Rider

It gives you an opportunity to stage for the light ahead of the cars so they
don't make a right turn into you.

Rider

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Doug Sears wrote:

> Thanks for the pictures. After viewing them, 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Maus"
> To: "OBRA list list"
> 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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> Editor, BikePortland.org
> http://www.BikePortland.org
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