Originally Posted by
cyccommute
All in all, if that system was "planned" that's a truly poor commentary on the traffic engineers' abilities.
Bike lane was designed to curve before exiting across the car lanes. So the cars can see the cyclist's wider, side, profile as they approach and turn, and so the cyclist gets in front of a car, not come from the blind side of the car, before going across the road. Lane moves out, then in, before the intersection. For the straight way, it is pulled in to leave room for the car parking, but it's divided from the pedestrian path by a grass covered area - both the bike lane and the pedestrian path are wide enough.