Originally Posted by
rsbob
My favorite “bike lanes” are the ones where bikes are painted in the middle of a traffic lane - as if that will make drivers more accepting and patient. Talk about a city cheating-out. Better than nothing, almost.
I've actually found that helpful in Boston--it seems to condition the drivers to expecting bikes in the lane on relatively busy and narrow streets. Boston is kind of a special case, though, seeing as how many of the main roads are really paved cow paths and routed accordingly.