What's this doing in the bike lane?

Share your pics, videos, streets, stories of what you find in the bike lane of the non-bike variety that has an impact on your ride and/or your safety. I've decided to keep it a little more open ended - cars, snow, buses, garbage, cabs, etc. If they shouldn't be in the bike lane, go ahead and add it to this thread. Please be safe if you are taking pics or video! :-)

My hope is that we can collectively build some evidence of what we see when riding in the city with the overall hope of better enforcement of "bikes only" and improving maintenance.

Update: More Hashtags to Capture Vehicles in the Bike Lane

With popular hashtags:
#BikeLaneShaming

#LaneSpreading (Chicago Bike Selling)

#ClearTheWay (ActiveTrans), there are many options to capture violations.

We think you should use ALL of them AND post your photos on The Chainlink. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on June 2, 2019 at 10:54am

Sigh. One can't look at total fatalities. One must use fatalities per mile. Did the number of miles traveled by bike go up because more bike lanes were available? Are more people cycling? Did the fatalities happen in the bike lanes, or elsewhere?

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Permalink Reply by ketoguychicago on June 2, 2019 at 12:40pm

Things get complicated. From the article: "For example, Portland saw the biggest increase in bike lanes. Between 1990 and 2010, city's bike lanes increased from 1% to 6%, while the road fatality rate dropped by 75%." So far, so good. But now look what happens after 2010 in different study:

Portland fares worse indexed against a national average, all while the national trend is itself getting worse, not better. See brown line for Portland and the black line for the National Trend in the attached graph with this article, especially in 2016-18. https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/22/are-we-starting-to-see-progr...

I'm not suggesting that it is the proliferation of bike lanes since 2010 that is making both Portland and the nation more dangerous, even while bike lane prevalence is up, and fatalities are on an overall uptick since 2010 in this graph, merely noting that things may be a little more complicated with so many variables in play.

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Permalink Reply by ketoguychicago on June 2, 2019 at 12:42pm

Agreed Argonne, a denominator would add a lot. More people, more distance, someone could even offer that there was lower congestion and thus higher speeds thus injury incidents became fatal accidents, which reminds us injuries are important too. Some also suggest that utility about travel times per mile, i.e. faster per mile is more favorable, could be included. That's controversial, but if it wasn't favorable on one axis, people wouldn't run stop signs or speed, or ride a bike instead of walk.

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Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on June 2, 2019 at 3:02pm

This was doing on the new Polk protected bike lane on Friday

https://twitter.com/84EWashington/status/1134623200338489345

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Permalink Reply by Steve Weeks on June 2, 2019 at 3:19pm

"Wow... what a nice, convenient place to park my Bimmer!" :-/

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on June 2, 2019 at 3:46pm

Well, that didn't take long. What, one week?

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on June 3, 2019 at 10:51am

375 S Franklin St. 311 report submitted.

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Permalink Reply by Argonne69 on June 4, 2019 at 10:42am

Franklin and Washington. 'Saw this near train wreck unfold in front of me. The skateboarder was moving at a good clip, and he was barely able to stop before tumbling on to the hood of the car. I simply don't know what's so f*cking difficult about stopping to the left of the bike lane and checking to see that it's clear before completed the turn, especially when there are f*cking pedestrians in the crosswalk.

Oh, and of course this a**hole had to step in front of me without looking. It's a good thing I was already on the brakes or she would have eaten the pavement.