Bike lanes coming to Cherry by the end of the month

Shouldn't the sharrows be on the south side, since that's the side with the most significant downhill segment between 12th & 23rd? Or do I not understand how sharrows work?

Andrew! And it's true, she said sadly.

Remind me not to take Cherry eastbound during the afternoon commute. It was bad enough with two lanes. It will be just lovely w/ only one, parked cars and intrepid bikers. Pity the bikers. Yikes.

As a cyclist I hate seeing sharrows painted... as Andrew pointed out they legally mean nothing and I've found they generally lead motorists towards abusive behavior towards cyclists who are riding entirely within the law. I never had people harass me on 19th until they painted it with sharrows, now its relatively common.

I believe Scott was incorrect to call the measures safer.

Seattle has doubled its bike lanes in the last year with the promise of increased bicycling and 1/3 reduction in fatalities.

So far this year the fatality rate has not declined. In fact it has increased. And not by 2.6%, or 26% but the fatality rate in Seattle has INCREASED 2.6 TIMES over the previous 2 and 4 year periods. HOW IS THAT SAFER????

Door zone bike lanes are a HAZARD ZONE recognized by bicycle driving instructors, but stubbornly ignored by bike activists. Sharrows have NO legal meaning, but Seattle has used them to indicate position that their designers have told me (after seeing my pictures of them) are contrary to their intention, so they see the need to clarify it further.

Bicyclists who take the responsibility to learn how to make the rules of the road work for them avoid 90-95% of the crashes that plague typical untrained bicyclists, and cyclists who trust bike lanes.
Now, that is safer.

David

I ride in the damn 'Sharrows' all the time and they work great.

you would complain about anything, I swear

of course injuries and fatalities have increased, the sheer number of bikers has skyrocketed.

Mayor Nickels was miffed that Portland got the most bike friendly city, so all the sudden bike lane emblems started appearing on roads that are clearly not big enough for designated separate biking, parking and driving areas. I think it is purely a ploy to knock Portland out of that top spot. It is sad, because most of Portland's bike lanes are legit...

Ever try driving on Yesler where the bike lanes and the sharrows change width at every intersection including those intersections where you cannot see past the lights due to the steepness of the road (i.e. at Yesler and 23rd going westbound)? I have almost collided with several cars making the (obvious) assumption the lane width would be the same once I went through the intersection.