Peeve O' The Day: September 7, 2011
Wed, 09/07/2011 - 12:53pm | by blindeke
Bike Lanes In Which It Is Legal to Park Your Car
The bike lane on Como Avenue SE allows legal parking except for a few hours each morning.
What is the point of making a designated bike lane on a street if you allow cars to park in it? I think someone somewhere is missing the point.
Comments
Is that a bike lane?
We have one of those near me, too, on 5th St. NE. It's striped like a bike lane, but there are no signs and no bike icon painted on the ground. Official city bike map says both locations are "planned for 2011" - I'm ready to give the benefit of the doubt and say they're in transition. (People are already mostly not parking on 5th St. though.)
10th Ave N too
The new lanes on 10th Ave N allow parking too. I'd like to think that the sign crew is just behind the stripe crew, but there was a block of the 7th St N lanes that allowed parking for a year or two.
311?
Didja call 311? Maybe 'twas just an oversight.