Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Quit the video after about 2 minutes of its nauseating drivel about cars and bike as "natural enemies" and the narrator's sanctimonious tone about traffic being a contest of bicycling goodness verses evil car driving road ragers. Any message about sharrows, positive or negative, is lost in such rhetorical noise. The images were just as simple minded as the verbal noise.
I agree that sharrows are useless,they work about as much as 'share the road' signs. While I prefer riding in traffic,not everyone is a Real Cyclist like you,and there are plenty of folks who wouldn't ride if there weren't bike lanes and sidewalks,and the video,however snarky,makes a good point of this. If you'd watched the whole thing,he even quoted studies.
Personally,I'd prefer if instead of bike lanes and sharrows,cities would do proper traffic enforcement. Fines,loss of driving privileges,and maybe some jail sentences would actually correct bad behavior. Too any cities pretty much just let traffic deal with itself with the police only getting involved after there's a crash.