Originally Posted by
FenderTL5
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.
Cyclists are also supposed to stay out of the door zone, thus making the other purpose of sharrow markings useless.
As far as the OP's situation, I would have moved to the right once there were no parked cars. I think that's what the cop was trying to explain. Sharrows don't give you the right to ride down the center of the lane; you still have to ride FRAP.