{"id":3402,"date":"2014-04-02T21:07:48","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T03:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/?p=3402"},"modified":"2014-06-03T15:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T21:13:58","slug":"ask-shoulder-bike-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamtraffic.org\/engineering\/ask-shoulder-bike-lane\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask i am traffic: Shoulders as Bike Lanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Kasoff in Ferguson, Missouri asks:<\/span><\/p>\n

Our local highway and traffic department has striped a “bike lane” on the shoulder of a busy road. Aside from the fact that it is a bike lane, there are two big problems – the concrete aprons from all the driveways extend across the bike lane (but not into the traffic lane), and much of the bike lane is split between “road grade” pavement and “shoulder grade” pavement by a meandering line. Needless to say, such pavement conditions are very unsafe for a cyclist.<\/p>\n

I brought this to the attention of the highways and traffic people, and this is how they responded:<\/p>\n

“This Department considers the shoulder … suitable for a bike lane.”<\/p>\n

I don’t use the bike lane anyway, but its existence makes motorists much more aggressive toward my presence in the traffic lane. So my question is this: Are there any standards at all for condition of the paved surface in a bike lane?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n