The ◊ Ouch Lane

Some cities build dedicated bike lanes to encourage residents to travel by bicycle on city streets. Others build dedicated lanes for busses to ensure that busses can travel faster than cars in heavy traffic.

Boulder, Colorado, unable to decide which of these options to pursue, combined the two:

Bike Bus Only

Bike Bus Only

I wish I could’ve been at that planning meeting. “I’ve got it! Let’s take the smallest, most fragile vehicle on the road — the bicycle — and make it share a lane with the largest, heaviest, most massive vehicle! This plan is sheer elegance in its simplicity!”