A bicycle safety article in the Seattle Times

Danger in the bike lane

Nice to see articles like that getting written about in the paper. We need more of that to help raise awareness, both with cyclists and non-cyclists (drivers).

If there’s room for it, you can do a lot by separating bikes and cars e.g. by putting something solid and visible at the edge of the bike lane. Moving the stop-line a little further back for cars make the cyclists more visible when they’ve stopped at the red light. Putting up a red light for cyclists when it is green in the right-turn lane would be good, but it obviously only works if there is a right-turn lane.
The two first options are cheap and easily made. When you’re adding bike lanes you might as well make the small extra effort to make them safe.

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