sharrow

n. an arrow-like design painted on a roadway to mark a bicycling route. Subjects: English, Automobiles & Transportation

Editorial Note: A picture of a sharrow can be found in the San Francisco’s Shared Lane Pavement Markings report from February 2004. Etymological Note: Sha(r)ed-use + arrow

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Citations: 2004 Robert Raburn @ East Bay Bicycle Coalition ebbc-talk (San Francisco, California) (Mar. 12) “San Francisco Shared Lane Pavement Marking Report”: Providing room for bicyclists to share on the road is always preferable to merely indicating that bicyclists may share a narrow lane. In Oakland, an appropriate application of a sharrow (shared lane arrow) exists on a one-block section of Grand Avenue between Broadway and Webster. 2004 Humboldt County Association Of Governments (California) (June) “2004 Regional Bicycle Transportation Plan Update”: General support for employing alternative techniques to improve bikeways where bike lanes are not feasible, such as use of shared lane arrow (“sharrow”) instead of bike route signs for many streets and roads to provide improved bicycle network connectivity. 2005 Linda Baker @ Portland, Oregon Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Massachusetts) (Aug. 31) “‘Sharrows’ aim to help cars and bikes share roads”: Caught between the need for a continuous bike lane and the demands of drivers, Portland transportation engineers finally came up with a solution. Next month, the city will fill the gaps in the network with new shared-lane pavement markings, called “sharrows.” Stencils of a bicycle with two chevron markings above it will be painted, two per block, in areas too narrow for a bike lane. The idea is to keep cyclists away from parked cars while promoting awareness of their right to use the road. 2006 Aaron Naparstek Streetsblog (Nov. 13) “Birth of a Class III Bike Route”: These Shared Lane stencils are an entirely new type of bike lane marking for New York City. They are modeled after San Francisco’s “Sharrows.”

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