Originally Posted by
gcottay
Huh? I'm confused. Even my smart albeit blond wife is confused. You would rather head in parking so drivers can't see you as the back out into traffic?
I can't remember even awkward attempts at parallel parking being anything more than a brief inconvenience.
Here in Eugene a city staffer (who left as soon as he implemented this disaster) does that one better. He copied a situation on University Way in Seattle and:
1. Replaced a west-bound, concrete-protected contraflow bike lane (one-way east bound street) with a substandard width paint-only contraflow bike lane
2. Removed a door-zone east-bound bike lane
3. Put in sharrow markings (too far right, as usual) in the east bound direction
4. Changed the parking from parallel to back-in for east-bound motorists
So, since many cyclists will filter to the front on this stretch of street and the sharrow markings are placed in such a way as to appear to encourage that, there have already been so many incidents that one cop wanted to set up a kiosk with accident report forms. Also, in order to back in most motorists will first pull up into the contraflow bike lane so they can line themselves up, which also causes them to be hidden from view of filtering cyclists.
That's right, they really replaced parallel parking with back in parking. I guess there is at least one good thing; they got rid of a door-zone bike lane.