05-13-2022, 03:13 AM
(05-12-2022, 09:32 PM)bravado Wrote:(05-12-2022, 02:43 PM)KevinL Wrote: Indeed, most motorists' perception of 'narrow area at edge of road demarcated by solid white line' is 'bike lane', even though that's not necessarily true in many cases. It needs to be signposted and lane-marked as such, but motorists generally don't think to check for that.
We do need clearer and more thorough signposting of shared pathways; I don't think this one is marked as such.
When discussing future bike lanes in the redesign of Dundas Road nearby with a regional planner, he actually said that the bike icons painted onto the road are “too expensive” and they likely won’t do them for this specific project. Meanwhile, the whole lane is painted red in the Netherlands!
I'll be absolutely blunt here, an engineer is just lying to you. They're not free, but as far as road construction goes, they might as well be.
Legally the road sign is what is in force, but the OTM standards also require painting bike symbols on the pavement. The region always follows these standards. If they are not painting symbols, then they are not building a bike lane, and that individual felt lying to you saying it is too expensive was an easier and simpler way to get rid of this annoying constituent than explaining the anti-cycling truth, which frankly, may expose them to questioning from council.