Originally Posted by
alan s
I would guess, if you conducted a poll, that 99.9% of the people looking at that symbol would say it indicates the direction bikes are supposed to travel in that lane. In BF-speak, no salmoning allowed.
But that doesn't make sense at all.
Bicycles are supposed to ride in the direction of traffic - period - all roads, all the time. That makes the marking useless.
Locally, with few exceptions, the roads that have sharrows are roads where one or more of the exceptions to FRAP exist along the entire stretch. A road with substandard width is an exception to FRAP and a condition where cyclist are expected to take the lane.