Originally Posted by
joejack951
Just like a shoulder stripe would help keep motorists in line. Probably not too many occurences of motorists going off the side of the road on a straight, wide road though, at least not due to the lack of a stripe. As to telling motorists that cyclists belong on the road, how many motorists care if cyclists are riding out of their way regardless of what the pavement is striped as (so long as it's not a traffic lane)?
Enough to yell "get on the sidewalk" or "get off the road" when BL do not exist on similar roads.
Originally Posted by
joejack951
Again, at the most dangerous point on that roadway, the bike lane goes away. Psychological comfort to most cyclists just means being on one side of a solid stripe. Again, no need to call it a bike lane.
True, as I said, they are not perfect... and an unstriped WOL doesn't add anything in this regard either.
Originally Posted by
joejack951
But no better than a similarly paved and maintained shoulder.
Again, no different from a shoulder stripe (please note that in my original post here I was not involving WOLs because a ~25 foot lane would cause some issues with ambiguity.
So in the situation described by Six Jours, the bike lane stripe is no different than a shoulder stripe, right?
Except on roads with curbs, there are no shoulder stripes. A striped BL puts the cyclist on the "traveled way" and removes the ambiguity of whether a cyclist is on the road or not.