Originally Posted by Brian Ratliff
A simple way which might eliminate this concern about visual clutter is to place a shoulder to the right of the bike lane. Then the entire lane becomes accessible to cyclists. The current state of the art designs, I feel, are adequate, but placing a designated shoulder to the right of the bike lane (this would mean bike lanes are designated by two stripes, one to the left and one to the right) would be even better.
Why not just make restricted use NOLs. Cyclist ride in the left side of this NOL (even put a dashed stripe down the middle of the lane and mark the left side with a 'bike icon' to guide cyclists, then right side becomes default shoulder)
-Motor powered vehicles permitted & required to only use lane for turning & restricted to 25mph zero tollerance.
-Lane is a RTOL for motor vehicles at intersection
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