I voted using the ped model as the law (motorist must yield to cyclists.) but I would also advocate the design policy to end the bike lane strip 200’ before intersections.
My reasoning follows roughly this logic:
If a bike lane or any sold white line lane marking exists, it is for the purpose to discourage crossing the line.
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/PavMkgs/Tu...olid_lines.htm Therefore it would not be standard vehicular practice to require movement over a solid white line. Solid white lines imply those who are in the lane have the ROW over those who are crossing the lane. I strongly support that laws and pavement markings be in agreement with one another,
If we want motor vehicles to merge into the bike facility we have this
http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/HTM/2003r1...tm#section9B05
And if we want bikes to merge with vehicular traffic we end the bike lane.
This gives us all options in our tool kit to design roadways that make the most sense under a wide variety of conditions.