Originally Posted by
flangehead
If only that were true.
Houston rebuilt a major arterial with 15’ outside lanes, 35 mph, and then painted sharrrows centered more than 5’ from the edge. If you ride over center you aren’t FRAP per Texas law. It isn’t pretty
Sounds like the highway engineers believe FRAP would be a mistake there. It rather often is a mistaken way to ride.
With two lanes in a given direction, sharrows would be placed in the right hand one in a position to
preclude in-lane passing. Drivers are supposed to change lanes to pass you - it's another version of the "cyclists may use full lane" sign, but goes further and makes it "cyclists
shall use full lane"
If there were formally enough space for safe in lane passing, they'd have painted bike lanes, not sharrows.
Painting sharrows overrides any ill-conceived FRAP law, since the cyclist is now in a designated place. Making an exemption to a stupid law could be
exactly why they did it.