CliffordK

No reason the question shouldn't apply to Canada, UK (and adjoining islands), Australia, Gibraltar, India, Faulklands, and a few other primarily English speaking nations.

Also could be translated into any other language and still have meaning.

Ninety5rpm

Peds???

avole

I take it you are joking?

Ninety5rpm

Why would that be a joke?

les vélos peuvent
utiliser la pleine voie

CliffordK

No reason similar signs (perhaps slightly different wording) couldn't be used elsewhere.

Except in the UK, they may encourage riders to stay left rather than staying right.

Machka @Machka has posted some wonderful bike signs from Down Under.

CliffordK

Keep in mind that that is only one road (McKenzie Pass) that has heavy bicycle traffic. In fact, it is closed to cars this time of year, but they allow cyclists and pedestrians to hop the gate (at their own risk).

It is a tough hill climb, especially for those doing a century+ RT ride from Eugene, with a 20 mile climb in the middle of the ride. So, I'd agree that drivers should expect cyclists using the full lane. I just couldn't keep a narrow track.

Personally I would not put those signs up indiscriminately. Perhaps choose a few specific roads where there are quite a few cyclists, and poor or nonexistent road shoulders.

In town, sharrows should convey a similar message. Still, I believe in sharing the road, so letting cars pass whenever it is safe and convenient for all.

Perhaps a better sign would simply be "Bicycles on Roadway" without specifying where on the roadway.

In the Eugene area, Loraine HWY is popular among cyclists so more road markings would be appropriate, but I also presume all the locals know that it is popular among cyclists.

The McKenzie Pass above, gets many non-local drivers, so more road signs would also make sense.

Edit:
I went ahead and put my vote in... yes, there are a couple of signs on ONE road about 50 miles from my house. However, that is the only road I've noticed them on, and I believe it is a special case, and not necessarily general applicability.

There are more bicycles on roadway and bike route signs without the full lane signs.

avole

Thanks for proving my poiny. so, your thread should be titled ... BMUFL and LVPULPV. Then, of course, you’d need to add the acronyms for Germany, Japan, Samoa, Belize etc. The best way, of course, is simply not to use an acronym

By the way, there seems to be a keyboard problem your end, or you are using a font my tablet doesn’t recognise.

MikeyMK

..or where the right side is the on-coming lane.

And let's face it, we don't need to be told not to ride in the on-coming lane here. Though a bit of 'natural selection' never hurt anyone.

Jim from Boston

In fact, Machka has a thread of all kinds of Street Signs from all over the world. My contribution was this one in Toronto where cycles were granted free rein.

work4bike

I have one of these signs I've noticed in my area and it's the only Sharrow I know of in Jacksonville. However, it's kind of funny because the section of road in question is only about a block long where this sign/Sharrow is in effect. The rest of the road has a bike lane.

The only reason this area is a sharrow is because it's sandwiched between a bunch of stores/restaurants, so the speed limit is dropped down to 15-mph. This area is in Jacksonville Beach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackso...Beach,_Florida, along 1st street N.

P.S./A little Trivia: Jacksonville is the largest city (area wise) in the lower 48, at just under 875 sq/miles. So maybe there are other areas I haven't seen, but a lot of Jacksonville is also open land, so probably not that many other areas that have sharrows...

Milton Keynes

We don't have BMUFL signs, but we do have these here and there:

ggoytia1

I'm in a rural yet growing area. We need signs but more importantly we need the car eating potholes to be fixed. Tarrant count could care less
(Fort Worth)

Rollfast

I can't even get Googoo to focus on what ever the sign is. Mind filling us nt?

CliffordK

Are car eating potholes a problem?

Do they eat bicycles too?

mr_bill

-mr. bill

Rollfast

They must not care about that anymore, it only lacks graffiti and bullet holes to show it's true age.

ggoytia1

Lol. We could lay a small motorcycle on its side and still be enough to need a few inches to be flush with the road.

benjdm

None in my state. NY State DOT refuses to think they're a good idea and prohibits their use in their addendum to the MUTCD.

I-Like-To-Bike

Maybe the "problem" is at your end. Besides not recognizing fonts that other posters have no problem seeing, and apparently no spelling or grammar checker, does it also not have the ability to allow an inquiring reader, new to A&S/BF, to look up almost any unfamiliar acronym on Google with just a click or tap?

Leisesturm

It can't have escaped your notice that you are posting in an English speaking and N.A. centric forum. Is this an example of what you people (sorry) call "ennui"? Come on, go against type. You are an ambassador. A&S is un endroit difficile at the best of times. Cut the inmates some slack, why not?

Rollfast

You suggesting Escape From Bikatraz?

Ninety5rpm

Frankly, it's a bit surprising that this attitude is limited to a few states like NY. That most other states are rejecting that attitude and putting up the BMUFL signs is a big OFFICIAL BLACK AND WHITE slap in the face to anyone who who believes bicyclists don't belong on the roads in the way of motorists.

It's a great message and is only beginning to transform societal attitudes.

Rollfast

I still subscribe to the bike < car < semi < locomotive school of thought and make sure we all know we're there.


It has nothing much to do with social engineering, I learned it in physical science lessons.


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