Blue bike box full house Victoria BC.AVI

The "bike box", an advanced stop line for cyclists, works well in Victoria, BC where a travel lane with options for through movements or left turns is used by thousands of riders a day. Left turning cyclists are usually headed towards the Galloping Goose Regional Trail, a popular rail to trail corridor connecting Victoria with neighbouring urban neighbourhoods, suburban municipalities and stretching into rural communities and the edge of the rain forest wilderness of southern Vancouver Island.

The bike box has been serving cyclists for nearly a decade and helps get them to the front of the queue and visible to following motorists. With speed limits set at 30 km/h cars don't need to get around cyclists in the one lane served by the bike box and have access to an adjacent lane through to and across the capital's "Blue Bridge", an iconic, aging "bascule" drawbridge slated for replacement.

The treatment was one of the first bike boxes in North America and has since been joined by another facility in Victoria and variations on the same design notably in Vancouver, BC and in numbers of bicycle friendly cities in the U.S.

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[johnluton]

Sort of a long time since your first comment, but the bike box here works well to sort out bikes and other traffic that are often heading in different directions. The lane is an optional through or left turn, with most cyclists turning left, so the box is working well for them and most are happy with the treatment.

[GETTHEDEUCE]

The blue Bike lanes are to wide for London, Trucks Vans & even Cars have to drive in them to avoid oncoming traffic. It gives the Cyclist a false sense of security, & will be tempted to ride side by side in pairs & over take slower Cyclist.

Distaster waiting to happen.