Originally Posted by B. Carfree

Incorrect on all counts. Oregon law prohibits placing objects in the bike lane and the city most definitely does NOT instruct people to do this. (However, until very recently the city did instruct people to illegally block the bike lanes with their yard waste, but not any longer.) I had this issue in Eugene along Bailey Hill Rd. While it did take a few weeks and several calls to the appropriate city staff, the issue was resolved and the folks who were blocking the bike lanes with their rubbish stopped doing it.

Actually, the garbage trucks in Eugene don't even have a right to pull into the bike lanes to access the cans. Only vehicles making a turn onto/out of a road or into a driveway, picking up or dropping off a passenger or containing a municipal employee who must place his vehicle there in the performance of his duty may be in the bike lane. Our garbage is collected by private companies, so they are not allowed to pull into the bike lanes.