Thursday, June 3, 2010

Bike trail markings are a bad idea for Oregon

Washington DOT tried to persuade Oregon DOT (ODOT) to put in bike trail markings on the I-5 bridge to direct bike traffic to go a certain route. This would have merely suggested to bikers to travel with the flow of traffic. A study done concluded that most bikers travel in the opposite direction of traffic.The markings they are trying to put in place will create to much liability because they are not approved by state or federal authorities so ODOT denied their request based on these reasons and I am happy they did because I like seeing traffic coming at me in certain places so I can better avoid being hit.

Article Link:
ODOT says no to new markings on I-5 bridge path

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