Originally Posted by
hagen2456
What? "Pedestrian style", with quotation marks and all... what is it you don't undrstand here? I, and others, have already told you what that means: in the photo, to access the side street, you stop your bike, check for traffic, and cross.
And what makes you think that the traffic is always that calm? My wild guess is that the bike lane was made on that road, because it often carries heavy traffic.
Hagen, look again at the photo. Access to driveways on the other side of the street is by left-turn bays at locations where there is no cross street. So, should the cyclist walk across four lanes of traffic in the middle of the block, between intersections at which there is cross traffic? That is the situation I described; so what is your solution?