Sharrows vs Bike Lane

[Eden]

Your photo looks like neither a bike lane nor a sharrow, but just a plain old shoulder.

this is a sharrow:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...,9.04,,1,16.83

(hmmmm can't seem to get the google map image to show up here... sorry, but click on the link and give it a moment to resolve [the resolution is very low when you first get there])

Honesty - they are not my favorite things..... They are meant to indicate to motorists one thing, that they should regularly expect cyclists in the lane on that street. Motorists however often misinterpret them to mean that if you are a cyclist you need to ride on them.... They way they've been implemented here they are too small and too far to the right. If you ride "on" them you are often smack dab in the door zone of parked cars. They really should be in the middle of the travel lane to be effective. I find that I get more crap from motorists on sharrowed streets than on ones that have no paint, so I would prefer that the city save the money and just leave well enough alone....