07-28-2018, 06:05 PM
I've been continuing to count cars in the Uptown bike lanes. I think the current status is that (1) occasionally a car doesn't get the memo about where the lane ends (especially near Princess, and somehow often a BMW) and (2) cars sometimes think that using the bike lane to drop off people is just fine. I yell at people about that sometimes. It's this thing where people need to be dropped off 2 steps from their destination.
(1) is annoying and shouldn't happen, but it's not as much of a danger as (2). There's also a pylon on the east side that helps with (1). For (2) the problem is that it's an intermittent danger that is hard to protect against (except by bollards!). Like, it's really hard to enforce "no stopping" as compared to "no parking"; by the time someone comes by (and even if they wanted to enforce), the infraction may no longer exist.
(1) is annoying and shouldn't happen, but it's not as much of a danger as (2). There's also a pylon on the east side that helps with (1). For (2) the problem is that it's an intermittent danger that is hard to protect against (except by bollards!). Like, it's really hard to enforce "no stopping" as compared to "no parking"; by the time someone comes by (and even if they wanted to enforce), the infraction may no longer exist.