Has anyone painted sharrows on their own initiative?
10-09-15, 08:22 AM
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Hmm, perhaps googly eyes on the farmer driving the tractor...
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10-09-15, 11:21 AM
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OK. Let me explain it more explicitly. In town we have a 4 block section of main street that has sharrows. There are none anywhere else along main street or on any connecting roads. Of course we know that the sharrows don't affect anything with respect to sharing the road. Things should be no different on the sections of main street beyond either end of the sharrowed section. IMO, motorists not entirely familiar with the law or how to share the road with cyclists might interpret the fact that there are sharrows along only a section of the road to indicated that law and appropriate sharing behavior is different there, and expect cyclists to behave differently where there aren't sharrows. So what purpose do sharrows really serve?
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OK. Let me explain it more explicitly. In town we have a 4 block section of main street that has sharrows. There are none anywhere else along main street or on any connecting roads. Of course we know that the sharrows don't affect anything with respect to sharing the road. Things should be no different on the sections of main street beyond either end of the sharrowed section. IMO, motorists not entirely familiar with the law or how to share the road with cyclists might interpret the fact that there are sharrows along only a section of the road to indicated that law and appropriate sharing behavior is different there, and expect cyclists to behave differently where there aren't sharrows. So what purpose do sharrows really serve?
10-09-15, 02:40 PM
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I considered it, but my wife prefers my initiative unpainted.
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12-24-15, 09:08 PM
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I never did but think about it every now and then. I suspect a sharrow is going to be very expensive since a bike lane alone will cost thousands in materials. Have you seen the price of a spray can? One large sharrow will set you back 20 bucks.
12-24-15, 11:18 PM
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Painting traffic controls, or anything else not approved by the transportation authorities on a public roadway, however well meaning, is a violation of traffic laws, and defacing public property.
You just can't do that. Not a case of Scrooge.
You just can't do that. Not a case of Scrooge.
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12-24-15, 11:24 PM
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This is all shooting from the hip here, but what I would do is make a stencil out of a sheet of linoleum, take my time and get the dimensions correct. Make sure it's a good and flexible piece of linoleum. Get good paint that would be durable and put the stuff on pretty thick. I'd like to do it so it would be hard to distinguish it from the real McCoy. I would think it would be a good a good idea to practice this and get the whole process down good. Find deserted rural road or something and work on the process.
Oh yeah, start scrounging around for traffic cones too.
(this is all fantasizing here of course)
12-25-15, 09:31 AM
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As someone who rides and works in the roads regularly, you have a better chance of getting killed painting stuff in the road than riding. Vests, barricades, flashing lights don't stop some drivers. I'm sure that white house or spray paint really lasts on pavement.
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12-26-15, 12:53 PM
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12-30-15, 04:23 PM
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