Sad news...

[jobob]

I ride that section of Woodside Road road very often. It has very wide shoulders and imho it's one of the safer roads one can be on in the Bay Area.

If it happened where I think it happened, it was right after a bend in the road just before the entrance ramp to 280 north. The bike lanes are quite well marked, except at the spot where the bike lane moves over from the shoulder to the left hand side of the lane leading to 280.

But that's absolutely no excuse for an inattentive drivers' actions.

Since that's one of my favorite rides, I'll keep riding it.

- Jo.

But as someone so aptly pointed out on the VeloGirls list, "Bike lanes are painted sticks - not a force field."