But that is a double-edged sword: they put a pseudo-bike lane (i.e. a symbol of a bicycle but no sign, meaning it is not a legal bicycle lane) on the right hand side of the parking lane, i.e. right in the door zone.MichaelB wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:45 pmAnd quite wide too with plenty of parking placesAdelaidePeter wrote: ↑Wed Dec 13, 2023 1:36 pmI know the road well: speed limit is 50 and it is straight; there is just no reason for this to happen.
Looking at the Channel 7 photo, it looks like it happened going westbound, which is a bit downhill; after Sunnymeade Ave but before the school crossing. The pseudo bike lane becomes impossibly narrow at the school crossing because a road island is built out from the kerb. I wouldn't be surprised if the cyclist moved out of the pseudo bike lane in anticipation of that .
Crappy road planning with a tragic result. (I am not saying the driver was not at fault either, but crap road design did not help). (Pardon my language, I am upset).
EDIT: GSV photo of the crossing https://imgur.com/a/2WfNNnQ. The crash happened "behind the photographer", at a guess about 50m before the crossing.