[SDCBC] Pet peeve: cyclists have "no choice" but to be unsafe/crazy

[Trevor Bourget]

>It's really too bad bike lanes are called bike LANES, because I 
>think the "lane" part really sets up false expectations and 
>inappropriate comparisons to real traffic lanes that cannot be 
>achieved by paved space that is less than half the width of a real 
>lane and needs to be regularly entered and crossed by vehicles that 
>are also supposed to stay out of it.

One of my favorite keeper comics is from U-T opinion column by Kathy 
Keehan a few years ago. The drawing is of a guy painting a stripe on 
the road. In the caption, a cyclist comments "so you're going to add 
a bike lane?". Worker replies "this is the bike lane".

So now I always refer to this part of the roadway as the "bike line".

-- Trevor