Friday, September 21, 2018

Legally parked?


This car is parked in the 1200 block of 2nd Avenue SE, comfortably on the right side of the "no parking here to corner" sign. But...


...it is also parked across the bike lane, which for some reason shifts to the curb just above 13th Street. So are these other cars:


In the drivers' defense, if they're parking at night, the bike lane markings are not easily seen, and these are well inside the "no parking here to corner" sign.

This has never been a problem for me, either on a bike or in a car, because most auto traffic on 2nd Avenue turns either left or right onto 13th Street. So it's easy to maneuver around these cars. But--note the moving vehicle down the street, whose driver didn't turn--it could be an issue.

An easy solution would be to move the "no parking here to corner" sign beyond the driveway you see in the picture above. (After the driveway, the bike lane shifts back out into the street, away from where the cars are parked.) You could preserve the parking spaces if you restriped all the lanes to make them straight through the intersection of 2nd and 13th.

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