LANE BIKE
I rode my bike to work yesterday. I still find that highly rewarding and this was the first time in a month I've done it. I'm hoping to keep doing it twice a week if our schedules allow. Not sure if that'll happen though.
They finally put lines on a road near us. It's taken them two years to paint the yellow lines. They also painted in a bike lane, which is really nice of them. I, of course, took advantage of the bike lane by staying as far to the right as possible while in the lane. I may have my own lane, but that doesn't stop people from screaming by at 45 mph within inches of my soft, tender flesh.
The one thing that confuses me though is the way they indicate the bike lane. (and they do this with school zones, "stop ahead," and other things too.) They put the words for bike lane down on the pavement in the order you reach them. So, imagine you're looking down at the road and you'd see this from above:
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| LANE |
| BIKE |
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Does that not say, "Lane Bike?" It does. I don't care if I'm driving at them and the first word my tires will ingloriously roll over is "bike." I still grew up under the unyielding rules of the English language that dictate you read from the top, down; left to right. That's annoyed me for a long time. "Zone School" and "Ahead Stop" and "Lane Bike" and "Range Bomb": The words aren't that far apart on the pavement. I could see, maybe, if the words were 50 feet apart you would want them in the order they'll be reached; however, when they're only 3 feet apart, just put them in the normal order they should be read.
They finally put lines on a road near us. It's taken them two years to paint the yellow lines. They also painted in a bike lane, which is really nice of them. I, of course, took advantage of the bike lane by staying as far to the right as possible while in the lane. I may have my own lane, but that doesn't stop people from screaming by at 45 mph within inches of my soft, tender flesh.
The one thing that confuses me though is the way they indicate the bike lane. (and they do this with school zones, "stop ahead," and other things too.) They put the words for bike lane down on the pavement in the order you reach them. So, imagine you're looking down at the road and you'd see this from above:
| |
| |
| LANE |
| BIKE |
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Does that not say, "Lane Bike?" It does. I don't care if I'm driving at them and the first word my tires will ingloriously roll over is "bike." I still grew up under the unyielding rules of the English language that dictate you read from the top, down; left to right. That's annoyed me for a long time. "Zone School" and "Ahead Stop" and "Lane Bike" and "Range Bomb": The words aren't that far apart on the pavement. I could see, maybe, if the words were 50 feet apart you would want them in the order they'll be reached; however, when they're only 3 feet apart, just put them in the normal order they should be read.