Spotted on Commonwealth Ave. last night: Yellow stenciled warnings at pedestrian crossings: "Look left for bikes."
The paint was a little thin, but the paint/thermoplastic used for road markings is known to stick poorly on non-new asphalt, and the stencils were quite readable for those who needed to read them--people about to leave sidewalks to step into crosswalks. Boston has gone to great lengths the last five years to make its streets more bike-friendly. From Allston Heights to the Eliot Bridge completely on bike lanes or with road-shares. Left-side lanes on Comm Ave. in Back Bay. Proposed removal of parking spaces to accommodate bike-lanes on Mass Ave. (just in time for me to no longer be using that route to commute; sigh). Lanes all around Dorchester.
It'd be wonderful to get to a point where drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians don't need explicit warnings for us all to coexist, but in a section of the city notorious for erratic behavior by all users, the heads-ups are a welcome sign--literally.
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