Originally Posted by noisebeam
But if the stripe was not there one would still ride in nearly the same right biased position on such a road (assuming it was intersectionless) when there was faster same direction traffic. One would not 'take the lane' given the same pavement width and conditions.
(I am fine with wide properly maintained BLs on high speed high volume intersectionless roads, but also fine with a WOL on such a road.)
Al
I don't disagree but I do favor the words "bike lane" or pictures of a bike painted or "bike route" signs in conjunction with WOL to put alert drivers to the possibility that there will be cyclists using the road and to watch for them