L Street Bike Lanes

[UrbanEngineer]

There are supposed to be bike boxes at the front of every East Bound L-Street intersection to accommodate cyclists who need to get over ahead of time to turn right up the road.

On a different note, I’ve been noticing a lot of cars taking up half the green painted bike lane when turning left. Sometimes it’s a tighter squeeze than I would recommend trying to ride in.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@UrbanEngineer 35751 wrote:

There are supposed to be bike boxes at the front of every East Bound L-Street intersection to accommodate cyclists who need to get over ahead of time to turn right up the road.
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Yes, but the light was green and I was the only one stopping. What I’ve learned is that I need to plan ahead and get over the block before or merge into the left turn lane.

[dcv]

@Greenbelt 35645 wrote:

They’re called “flex-posts” — maybe your trailer will put them to the test of their flexiness!

flexy like this? i love this video, can watch it over & over (make sure you have sound on)
[video=youtube_share;Bu_a5vq36K4]http://youtu.be/Bu_a5vq36K4[/video]

[Terpfan]

I haven’t ridden since last week due to a nice cold and work obligations, but I was in a MD cab last night going down L. Unfortunately he was clueless and I said you need to get over now trying to explain the bike lanes and he just went right up to the light and then turned left. I think he understood what I was saying after he made the turn, I just suspect this will be an ongoing issue for quite a while.

As for the 15th St question. I waited for the red figuring those with the red clearly can’t make that turn on a red. The only trouble with this approach is then merging into those going north or avoiding/waiting on those going south that are already on the cycletrack.

[jnva]

Lots of traffic enforcement out this morning on L street. Had a chat with one of the officers and she asked me how I liked the bike lanes. I said other than the two trucks parked in the lane right behind me, it’s ok I suppose. Also a beer truck unloading a couple of blocks back! She said they are supposed to be ticketing them.

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