JohnBrooking
03-15-07, 05:31 PM
I've been reading through the Minnesota Bicycle Transportation Planning and Design Guidelines (http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/ped_bike/docs/mnbikeguide.pdf), and encountered the following sentence (p. 31):
Where right turn on red is permitted, motorists tend to focus their attention on cross traffic approaching from the left, and in doing so may infringe on through bicyclist storage area.
and again, two pages later:
Where "right turn on red" is permitted, the focus of right-turning motorists toward cross traffic approaching from the left is intensified. The straight through bicyclist required to stop for the red light may find that vehicles turning right on red infringe into their storage area.
Anyone know what the heck they are talking about? They don't explain it, and when I googled the phrase as a phrase (w/quotes around it), and this document was the only result! It sounds like a way of referring where bicyclists tend to stop at an intersection, or maybe where the bike lane guides them to stop, but that's just a guess. Anyone know for sure? Maybe someone here helped write this document?
Where right turn on red is permitted, motorists tend to focus their attention on cross traffic approaching from the left, and in doing so may infringe on through bicyclist storage area.
and again, two pages later:
Where "right turn on red" is permitted, the focus of right-turning motorists toward cross traffic approaching from the left is intensified. The straight through bicyclist required to stop for the red light may find that vehicles turning right on red infringe into their storage area.
Anyone know what the heck they are talking about? They don't explain it, and when I googled the phrase as a phrase (w/quotes around it), and this document was the only result! It sounds like a way of referring where bicyclists tend to stop at an intersection, or maybe where the bike lane guides them to stop, but that's just a guess. Anyone know for sure? Maybe someone here helped write this document?