Comments on: Sharrows Are Not A Bike Plan

By: Bike Pittsburgh | Week’s Links: 11.30.12

Bike Pittsburgh | Week’s Links: 11.30.12 — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:14:20 +0000

[...] Sharrows are not a bike plan. [...]

By: Why Does DOT Keep Taking Away Inwood Bike Infrastructure? | Streetsblog New York City

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:44:09 +0000

[...] efficacy of sharrows is a topic of debate. But if a street is deemed too narrow for bike lanes, yet wide enough for two [...]

By: Nathanael

Nathanael — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:06:37 +0000

Blech. We use sharrows on narrow two-lane (one each way, *maybe* one parking lane each way) streets where traffic is already going at bicycle speed for the most part. This use of sharrows is… not that.

By: Bike News Roundup: Embarrassing anti-bike Toronto mayor on verge of being ousted | Plastic Surgery News

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:54:38 +0000

[...] Sharrows Are Not A Bike Plan « Systemic Failure [...]

By: Conrad

Conrad — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:25:12 +0000

I think of sharrows as a visual reminder for motorists that they need to share the road with bicycles and as such, I appreciate them. They are not bicycle specific infrastructure. I will ride on almost any road but if my kids can’t safely ride on it- it isn’t bicycle infrastructure.

By: The Bike Pittsburgh Blog Archives » Week’s Links: 11.30.12

The Bike Pittsburgh Blog Archives » Week’s Links: 11.30.12 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 20:13:39 +0000

[...] Sharrows are not a bike plan. [...]

By: Robert Prinz

Robert Prinz — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:24:35 +0000

What is particularly telling in the map you provided are all the Class II bike lanes shown, pointing from outside communities into Alhambra, which mysteriously dissolve at the borders into Class III sharrows. So no, it’s not about road width, it’s about priorities.

Doing a quick tour via Google Streetview, it looks like a lot of neighborhood streets, single family homes with driveways and multi-car garages. Then, in the commercial areas they have on-street parking next to giant parking lots. Why on earth is curbside parking considered such a necessity here? Beyond that, it looks like in some of these cases the neighborhood streets are already wide enough, so I wouldn’t be surprised it they could fit in 10 foot lanes next to 6 foot bike lanes and 8 foot parking zones (my preferred minimum).

Seriously, take a look at the Streetview pictures for South Almansor Street around Martha Baldwin Elementary. All of those drivers are either picking up kids or parked at the curb, waiting to pick them up. Take out the curbside parking, put in some wide, buffered bike lanes, and you’ve got a healthy, kid and family friendly way to get to school that would take a decent chunk of those cars off the street, making it all that much safer in turn.

By: LACBC Civic Engagement Committee meeting postponed, and a lot of post-holiday bike links « BikingInLA

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 08:09:10 +0000

[...] L.A.-based Bicycle Fixation offers their own 2013 calendar. Brewcyclers will lead a New Years ride to L.A.’s Golden Road Brewing on January 5th. Santa Monica will host the city’s first ever Family Bike Fest this Saturday. The CORBA 25th Anniversary Ride and Mingle group ride has been rescheduled for December 15th. Installing sharrows is not a bike plan. [...]

By: Examined Spoke

Examined Spoke — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 05:17:03 +0000

When you can write a post entitled “Bike lanes are not a bike plan,” we’ll have made progress.

By: Andrew J Besold LCI#2682

Andrew J Besold LCI#2682 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:29:51 +0000

Good call on the limited effectiveness of Sharrows. Yes they are an excellent tool in certain low-traffic situations but they shouldn’t be used as a cop-out on busier roads, like essentially useless “Share the Road” signs . Where I’ve seen Sharrows used on narrow urban roads with moderately high traffic and 25mph speed limits, all the bicyclists are on the sidewalk.

As your blog name bluntly states – Systematic Failure.