06-12-2018, 02:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-12-2018, 02:32 PM by danbrotherston.)
(06-12-2018, 02:15 PM)KevinT Wrote: I saw a video from CAA on cycling safety yesterday that showed two different sorts of sharrows, wide ones like we see on King through DTK and narrow ones used beside the curb when the road lane is quite wide and its safe for cars to pass bikes near the curb. I wanted to post it here but wasn't in a position to do so at the time, and now I can't find it for looking. I don't recall if it was Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube where I saw it, but my searches on all three today have come up blank. :-(
The MTO's Book 18 describing cycling facilites does describe two positioning for sharrows...one is near the curb, but approximately 1 meter out, which is the recommendation when the lane is wide (which I strongly dislike, if the lane is too narrow for a bike lane, then it's too narrow to safely share...almost by definition...in fact it is that width of lane that I find most dangerous, cars will almost always force their way through, and will rarely be able to give one meter passing distance).
The same book also describes placing sharrows in the middle of the road where the lanes are too narrow to share, or where there are obstacles (car doors for example) to the right.
Both of those are the same size/shape white paint bike symbol with the double arrow. The larger green things we have on King St. are a Kitchener innovation (well they're probably elsewhere too, but I've only seen them here) called "super-sharrows"...which are just bigger more colourful sharrows. (Edit: Apparently SF has them too: https://www.sfmta.com/blog/how-sfmta-inv...ke-sharrow)
Make no mistake, WRPS knows this, they're choosing to disagree with it and give contrary advice.