Originally Posted by
Daniel4
I get your point. But there's a big difference between parking a car in the sharrow lane and driving on it. If the sharrow means to share, then neither a bicycle nor anybody else can use it with a parked car there.
Right, that's what I mean. If it's not a shared lane with the cars' driving lane, then how is it a sharrow?
(There's a street I ride often to get to a friend's house that is confusing, too. It's marked as a sharrow, but it also has a parking lane. I think most people think the parking lane is a bike lane-- it's not marked as such, people usually park there, and it's wider than the other bike lanes around-- and that's problematic, of course, when one is riding and cars assume you should be there rather than in the actual lane for driving... IF there was no parking lane, I think people would be more likely to recognize that the sharrow markings mean... well... a sharrow, rather than thinking they're an indication that there's a bike lane.)