CaBi van in bike lane while balancing

[DanB]

Does CaBi have policy on where it’s vans park? I find this ironic.

I also wonder if others have seen this elsewhere. (This is the standard procedure at Thomas Circle, pictured below from two different angles.)

I don’t have a solution for this either. I’m guessing that parking on the sidewalk is a no-no despite there being PLENTY of room.

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[scoot]

For the reasons others have stated, I think the bike lane is probably the best place for the CaBi van at this station. (Unless there is room on the sidewalk near the edge of the bridge, behind the station)

If the van stays out of the bike lane but blocks the right travel lane, bikes traveling behind the van will also be temporarily invisible to the drivers turning onto M Street.

[jrenaut]

@scoot 116414 wrote:

If the van stays out of the bike lane but blocks the right travel lane, bikes traveling behind the van will also be temporarily invisible to the drivers turning onto M Street.

To be fair, none of the drivers who turn right onto M Street look for bikes anyway, so this would only be more dangerous because the cyclists couldn’t see the cars trying to kill them.

[PotomacCyclist]

A lot of car drivers block bike lanes too. On some afternoons, an entire block of the bike lane on New York Ave. gets blocked off, around 14th St. If people are trying to keep out CaBi stations because of the rebalancing vans, then they should probably oppose office buildings, stores/restaurants that have loading docks, churches, souvenir shops and apartment buildings too.

[scoot]

Hey, those are real American churches and businesses you’re talking about.

These red bicycles, with their redistribution schemes, are socialist. Get the vans out of the way and surely those bikes will trickle down to where they are needed.

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