Transportation
How Do You Design an Effective Bike-Lane Barrier?
Drivers are mowing over dividers in Oakland meant to protect cyclists and pedestrians. What can be done?
Travel down Telegraph Avenue in Oakland and you’ll encounter what look like giant cigarettes violently smooshed to the ground. These are so-called soft-hit posts, plastic barriers meant to separate motorists from cyclists and pedestrians that are proving as effective here as saplings against charging bulls.
For example, look at this sad specimen, with the bike lane in the foreground (before the double-white lines intended as a barrier between cars and cyclists):