Bike ’sharrows’ added to Fremont Ave.

By Geeky Swedes · November 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The city has painted “sharrow” markers all along Fremont Ave.

The sharrow symbol, a bicycle topped with two chevrons, is meant to signal motorists to share the road with cyclists. The markers usually go in at places where bikes are moving closer to the speed of vehicles (i.e., downhill) and where the road isn’t wide enough to accommodate a bike lane.

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1 eM // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:03 am

what about those green astro turf areas in bike lanes, mostly at intersections I think - what are those about?
2 Erica // Nov 11, 2008 at 11:57 am

The green areas are to mark places where motorists might not expect to see cyclists (like when you cross the Fremont Bridge going south and then immediately make a right turn - lots of cyclists shoot across that crosswalk). There’s also that odd triangle-shaped “bike box” at 50th and Green Lake Way headed south. It’s a weird spot for cyclists but the safest place to be for cyclists heading south there rather than turning right or left. So it’s green.

Portland uses blue for pretty much the same purpose.