Originally Posted by
mr_bill
Anyhow, I'll strongly disagree.
Turn around on
SE Ankeny Street. It's a bike boulevard. The diversions serve many purposes, including anti-Wazing the street so it remains low traffic. Permitting bikes through the diversions makes it a WONDERFUL low stress bike route.
Why the heck do they need sharrows there? Would anyone think that bikes were supposed to be blocked by those calming obstructions? That wouldn't even occur to me because the bike-sized gap that is not sidewalk adjacent makes it rather obvious that it's not intended to stop bikes.
Technically, btw, at that spot, it's not a "sharrow" as the gap lane is not actually being shared. Cars can't go. The question really concerns whether it makes sense to put these symbols in lanes actually shared by bikes and cars, not if the arrow on the road with a picture of a bike is a good symbol to use for places that are exclusively for bike use.