try to keep your petty complaints in check, commuter run.
what would that prove in a discussion about sharrows?
you think bicyclists hit by inattentive motorists somehow discredits the vailidity of lane striping for vehicle flow? or that the highway administration is off base on the basics of road design?
are there any sharrows in backwater florida yet? what makes you think a sharrow is the 'best' design for accomodating bicycle traffic on narrow laned, high speed arterial roads? what rationale leads you to assume this wild stance on bike transportation?
the FHWA, AAA, and just about every bonifide traffic engineer would disagree with your assessment about narrow lanes being the 'best' way to accommodate vehicles of wildly differing speed capacities.
what your complaining about is my stance that sharrows are suitable only for slower speed roads as consideration for bicycle traffic, high speed traffic cooridors require a different approach.
planners recognize that on slow speed, low volume roads, bikes mixing with traffic is acceptable but on high volume, high speed coorridors, more separation of modes is desired when considering bikes for transportation.
bikes in high speed narrow lanes is most emphatically NOT A METHOD to encourage bicycling as part of bikeways enhancements in communities.
Last edited by Bekologist; 09-21-09 at 07:09 AM.