15th Street Cycletrack signage/signals

[gregbilling]

Brendon,

I agree that it’s not totally intuitive when you’re actually riding. It’s a good example of how bicycles aren’t pedestrians or cars…we’re bikes! There are signs that instruct bicycles to follow the pedestrian walk/don’t walk lights. It gives peds/bikes a few second head start to get out in the intersection before cars go to help with visibility. There are also signs to instruct cars to yield to bikes and on cross streets that allow a left turn there are green and red lights. Cars are not allowed to turn while pedestrians and bikes are moving. Ideally, DDOT would have put in bike lights as well but to save some money they only used signs. I’ve attached a photo of one of the signs. It’s not a great photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/waba/5246206575/in/set-72157625563008942/

Greg

[CCrew]

My office is on 15th. It’s interesting to watch the confusion that occurs. It’s definitely counter-intuitive.

It’s two way where I am, I see most of the northbound riders still using the street vs the cycletrack.

[brendan]

Ok, clearly I missed the sign regarding which signal to follow. I would swear there was at least one block without signs…but my vision prescription is a bit out of date and the signs are kind of small…so I’ll just say: my bad. Still, I’m sure I’m not the only one who has been confused.

[jrenaut]

Most of the confusion seems to be from cars – they seem to be under the impression that left turns with a red arrow are somehow okay, especially at Rhode Island.

I commute home on 15th most days, and for the most part I think it’s well signed. It’s just a little strange at first because I’ve never seen a similar bike lane, or similar “bikes follow pedestrian signal” signs.

[DaveK]

On my road bike I ride in the lane on 15th St, on a CaBi I take the cycletrack. In the lane I act like a car, in the cycletrack I follow the ped signals. the cycletrack is something new to most folks but it’s very clearly signed and marked as to what you should be doing.

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