Bus stop with sidepath on sidewalk. Passengers waiting for the bus or getting on and off must contend with bicyclists crossing on the sidewalk. Note handlebar-snagging posts -- bicycle handlebars overhang the wheels and so these posts effectively narrow the two-way bike route by four feet, to only a single safe line of travel including very modest shy distance. In the photo, every second post has been removed after only a year or so after the Axe Nord-Sud opened. I suspect that they were removed in an attempt to decrease the hazard. Posts immediately adjacent to a bikeway are not acceptable under US bicycle facilities design guidelines. Also, straying into one of the curbs immediately adjacent to the bicycle route will topple a bicyclist. The curb directly behind the bicyclist in the picture would topple the bicyclist into the street.
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