Not all bike lanes are good bike lanes.
Many bike lanes are just squeezed in on roads and in the gutter or door zones of parked vehicles.
Often, this only makes it more challenging to ride a bike because car drivers get incensed that the ungrateful bicycle riders are riding in a lane and not using the space designated to them.
Like Sharrows, not all bike lanes are improvements to roads for bicycle rider safety.
The intersection pictured above is a road on the border between Del Mar and Solana Beach and it made a recent list of the 50 worst roads in San Diego County. It seems to be even worse than reported as accidents are reported at this intersection for both Del Mar and Solana Beach, but not combined. The intersection is Highway 101 and Via De La Valle – when going South from Solana Beach. If one is traveling North from Del Mar, the intersection is Camino Del Mar and Via De La Valle. It is no wonder that this made the list of most dangerous roads in San Diego County, and we wonder if this intersection is even more dangerous than the data suggests.
Where I agree with Vehicular Cyclists: Some bicyclist “infrastructure” puts riders in unsafe situations.
The patented Kostelec Substandard Bike Lane Barometer™️ illustrates.
Use bike lane: Risk dooring
Use car lane: Drivers complain you’re not in the bike lane #HugginTheLine pic.twitter.com/TwAqG8vz16— Don Kostelec (@KostelecPlan) August 29, 2018