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they separated the bike lane in front of my previous office on 2nd street in SF. This did not stop rideshare drivers from pulling over through the parking space
by scrumbledober 7y ago
they separated the bike lane in front of my previous office on 2nd street in SF. This did not stop rideshare drivers from pulling over through the parking spaces into the bike lane, effectively completely blocking me off with parked cars on my right on several occasions. I only worked there for a few months after the separated bike lane was put in so maybe drivers are figuring it out now but it was definitely not helpful while i was riding it. In addition they painted the entire bike lane solid green, which certainly helped visibility of the bike lane (was that a problem?) but also made it incredibly slick. the stop light at the bottom of the hill had an absurd amount of 10+ foot skid marks from people trying to stop on the slick surface.
- edaemon 7y agoA separated bike lane is supposed to have a physical barrier; SF's 2nd street bike lane was just a "buffered" bike lane, which means there's just some extra space between motor traffic and the bike lane. Poking around it seems like the city may have recently added some safe-hit posts to improve it a little bit.
- crooked-v 7y agoBy 'separated' I mean bike lanes like in the Netherlands, where there's a good two feet of elevated curb between the road and the bike lane.
- maxerickson 7y agoI'm sure it was a relatively freak occurrence, but in the 2 weeks I spent in the Netherlands, I almost got killed by a vehicle that used a separated bike lane to pass. They were traveling in the opposite direction as me and I had to move over into the curb area as we passed each other, or they would have run into me head on at 40 kph.