Visible and rideable bicycle lanes

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Permalink Reply by S on June 5, 2011 at 9:38am

I realize that. Thundersnow was asking if it could be done cheaper if someone just painted the lane red instead of using red asphalt.

Steven Vance said:

Asphalt can be dyed certain colors. They are using dyed asphalt. There's no paint applied.

S said:

Unless the paint is some special formulation, I wouldn't ride in a bike lane that was painted. The paint that's used for traffic markings gets really slick when wet and it's not that tough to slide out if you're doing a turn or other something similar and hit wet paint. The only thing that's worse in terms of traction is wet metal plates or manholes.