randya

seems to be a theme here right now.

Keith99

1) Continue on 100 feet to where it starts again
2) Turn right, go one block, turn left.

OK not always, but a lot of the time it seems bike lanes end because hte street gets narrow or nasty in some other way, either for a little while of for a long time. So either ride it out is for a little while or find another street if it is going to be nasty for a long time.

CB HI

Not a problem since I was not riding in the bike lane anyway.

Hopefully the cops do not start enforcing the Mandatory Bike Lane law the way NYPD is.

ScottStr

In most cases, the road is too narrow for you to share the lane, or they would have continued the bike lane. You should make sure any cars are back far enough to see you, then take the lane. One of my favorite roads has this situation. The bike lane ends just as you reach a part of the road that goes uphill and crosses a long bridge. The city put up signs at the end of the bike lane that say "Bicycles can use full lane." One of the posts for these signs was cut with a saw recently, presumably by a motorist who doesn't like having to use the other lane.

Bekologist

just like any other lane when it merges with another.

Plan ahead, look behind. signal, negotiate if necessary, lateral and ride safely along your chosen safe road position relative to road hazards, lane stripes, etc.

easy pleasy.

sudo bike

^ Bingo.

____asdfghjkl

depends.

Usually just scan the road, look behind and go if there are no cars but if there are signal.

Doohickie

DON'T touch the wall with your pedal or handlebar.

Northwestrider

We've a bike lane in our area that, I kid you not, is 100 to 150 yards long then ends as you describe, amazing. Take the lane

Bekologist

yes, class II bikeway and shared lane bikeway are often mixed in the same traffic corridor. It is amazing how traffic planners are less inclined to place a bikelane when there is not enough road with to do so nowadays.

amazing. We ride the built environment, some cities are working to accommodate bike traffic. sometimes the bikelane ends, or a bicyclist needs to make a left turn.

Changing lane patterns or transitioning to the adjacent lane at the termination of a bikelane stripe should not present, (or be presented as presenting! ) barriers to bicycling participation.

genec

Take the lane like you own it and continue on.

genec

Got one on a local 55MPH road that is heavily traveled, but for some reason the BL ends in two spots and then picks up again later. I tried to get the city to put up a sign (like they would for motor traffic) that the lane was ending, but no, they couldn't do that. I tried to get the city to put up a sign that says "cyclists may use full lane." No, they wouldn't do that either. So a bike lane ends, and a cyclist has no choice but to take the lane, and what do they put up. "Share the road." Freaking classic... motorists interpret that sign as if cyclists should give way to cars.

sudo bike

I've never actually heard a driver say that they interpreted the "Share the Road" signs that way. I mean, I'm sure some knuckleheads do, and it's inevitably those knuckleheads that give us problems... but I'd be hesitant to say it's a large amount of drivers. I would think I know at least one person who thinks that if it were a widespread notion, and I don't believe I do. I think the problem is they just don't care what the sign says and think we should get out of their way anyway.

I could be wrong, just a thought...

himespau 

I just wish they'd give you some warning when this happens and you're on an unfamiliar road so you know to start looking for a way to negotiate into traffic rather than suddenly having to, but that's life.

genec

Right, at least a "lane ending sign" just like motorists get... that would be nice. Good luck with that.

Digital_Cowboy

SB,

Sadly, on some of the roads that I ride that is how the motorists interpret them. Based on the close passes, and the horns that have been blown at me along with the shouts to get off of the road and/or on the sidewalk.

Digital_Cowboy

In my area some of the bike lanes do have those signs, but sadly not all of them.

LesterOfPuppets

If I know the bike lane's about to end, I try to take the non-bike lane well before the bike lane ends.

About 3:20 in this awful video:

____asdfghjkl

that's part of my commute!

ItsJustMe

Not really a problem around here since there are hardly any bike lanes, but when there are I NEARLY always just merge back into the lane. There's one exception I can think of, where the bike lane ends there's a curb cut onto a sidewalk that's 6+ feet wide and there's hardly ever anyone on it, and the road there gets narrow, the pavement is atrocious and it dips down under an expressway overpass so there's little visibility there. There I take the sidewalk until it meets a side street and go that way.

LesterOfPuppets

Wooo! 78th St. represent!

AltheCyclist

Simple goal for me: I try to avoid getting hit by a car. Actually, the sidewalk is an option here (my little town allows biking on sidewalks) so places where the road is really iffy (especially during winter, when snowplows push frozen ice masses onto the sides of the lanes, making biking difficult), the sidewalk is a good option (and sometimes the only option as one main arterial road is marked no-bikes)

One of my least favorite signs......

sudo bike

I'm not sure that's how they're interpreting them, though. I think they just don't care. You're "in their way" and they want you out of it, regardless of a little road sign telling them to play nicely. Again, YMMV.

Digital_Cowboy

SB,

That could be as well. We'll probably never know as I'm sure if we were to catch up to them and ask them what they were thinking that they wouldn't be forthcoming with the truth. Of course some of them will also probably will be forthcoming with the truth.

Such as the gal that I talked with outside of the local library. In her opinion cyclists didn't "belong" street because motorists are trying to transport "goods or cargo" from Point A to Point B. And we just get "in their way." I explained to her that cyclists are also trying to do the same thing i.e. transport goods or cargo from Point A to Point B. As well as sidewalks being designed for pedestrians and that bicycles and riders are too fast and too heavy to mix with pedestrians.

I also tried to point out to her that my bike probably weighs in somewhere between 50 - 60lbs and that I can easily maintain a speed of 15 - 20MPH and that if I'm carrying cargo of 50 or more pounds plus my weight of (summer weight) 180lbs or (winter weight) 210 - 220lbs. I would be able to do considerable damage to any pedestrian that I might run into.

B. Carfree

Well, up until Scotty died, I would just request a point-to-point transport. That new transporter operator doesn't like to do those; she is the one responsible for all those cyclists appearing out of nowhere you read about. Rather than risk that, I just take the lane like I own it, which I do.