Originally Posted by Bekologist
holding a left lane of a multilane road with no center turn lane, just a double yellow, waiting for oppossing traffic to clear, will get you the blaring horns and screams out the windows 80-90 percent of the time here.... don't know how it is for you guys but drivers locally are very pissypants.
Sure, it can happen anywhere, but is there an alternative? Yes, the alternative is to install LT only lanes, which allow for smoother (and faster
) forward flow for all vehicles. This is by no means a bicycle issue, but a vehicular one.
The default design method here is all roads have a shared center turn lane. As side streets are added, there is no need to install LT only lanes. Its hard to find a collector or arterial that doesn't have one (or didn't - the final evolution when there are lots of side streets/driveways is to add medians)
Al