Check out this brilliant green lane:
The vivid green paint is an upgrade for downtown Portland’s only coupled east-west bike lanes on SW Oak and SW Stark. The city installed the buffered lanes in 2009, with only green splashes in the lane at intersections, but they seem to be confusing to drivers—often cars will obliviously drive in the lane or use it as a loading zone. In a city survey (pdf) of how the lanes were working, 44 percent of cyclists reported seeing at least one car driving or parked in the lane every week. The city hopes that going all-green will make the lanes’ bike-only designation immediately obvious.
Has anyone figured out what the city are doing on NE Multnomah through the Lloyd District yet?
RE Multnomah @ Lloyd District:
http://blog.oregonlive.com/commuting/2012/10/northeast_portland_trimet_bus.html
Yay!
I was nearly hit by a Multnomah County van while in one of those lanes (before they painted it). Good times.
Hey, let’s talk about bikes!
We’ll see if drivers give more of a shit. When I was on the #16 last Wednesday, headed to city hall, I watched some generic sedan enjoy a lazy two-block run in the green paint on Oak.
Hopefully that green paint is non-skid. Otherwise, oopsie.
ujfoyt: From BikePortland.org: “According to PBOT, the new paint is called HOTLINE® Fast Dry Latex Traffic Marking Paint with a skid-resistant agent additive known as “Sharkgrip.” They bought it from Sherwin-Williams Co. for $16,697.20 (enough for 40,000 square feet of pavement). PBOT plans to use this same paint on the NE Multnomah project.”
“downtown Portland’s only east-west bike lanes”
Ooooh….SW Jefferson is gonna be pisssssseddddd….
@Drunk – Gah! I meant coupled east-west lanes. I’m gonna add in that “coupled” right now. Jefferson is coupled for only two blocks with the bike lane running the other way on Madison.