This Sucks

The route I rode my bike to school on for the past 7 years has a stretch of bike lane that is quite wide. There is a 3' gutter and curb and then the regular sized bike lane. But one stretch, around a curve is particularly bothersome to me. There is a curve in the road and drivers CUT INTO THE BIKE LANE instead of following the road. It's like the white solid line does not exist.

To make matters worse when the road was repaved they only added one symbol of a bike. The stretch of road is over a mile long and no place else does it even have BIKE LANE or another bike symbol painted in the lane. This should be common sense not to cross a solid white line unless you are making a turn...but then again why would you cut a curve when you cannot see what is on the other side?

Yesterday morning, traffic engineers were at my school to help with the traffic flow for the new remodel. I told them about the problem with the bike lane and they referred me to complain to Public Works. Yesterday afternoon a cyclist was struck on the curve of this bike lane and dragged 100' by a van towing a trailer. The driver did not even know he struck the cyclist. The cyclist was taken to the hospital and I have no idea of his condition.

Something needs to be done before this happens again. Bike lane painting? Rumble strips? Signage? Ticketing idiots who can not drive in the marked lane?

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