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Originally Posted by rumrunn6
priceless
Originally Posted by E53
Feel empowered... I guess
Originally Posted by rholland1951
The back story is that some years ago, the folks on Oliver Street, Belmont, petitioned for signage to prevent the street from being used as a cut-through route between Lake Street and Brighton Street. The vehicular traffic during rush hours was awful, and this fixed it.

But some wise people figured bicycles weren't the problem, and so bicycles were excluded from the prohibition. Civilized traffic management.

rod
FYA, I saw this similar bicycle exceptionalism in Toronto:



Originally Posted by cooker
Here's another look at Shaw St. in Toronto, not far from the spot shown by Jim from Boston. That's why the sign in his pic says "bicycles excepted" - there's a contraflow bike lane on an otherwise one-way street.

Since we're talking about signs, it's interesting that they a put a speed-bump warning sign up even for the cyclists heading north. Another sign of sorts, is the sharrow endorsing southbound cyclists taking the lane
Originally Posted by Jim from Boston
…Here in North America, I have found Toronto, ON a virtual sister city to Boston…

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