sharrows

About those sharrows: Do they work?

Written July 16th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

So-called sharrows started dotting city streets in Oregon in recent years. I’m wondering what if anything has been the result.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: active transportation, Albany bicycling, sharrows, Washington Street

Questioning ‘sharrows’ on downtown couplet

Written May 23rd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

It was in 2018 that ODOT painted shared-lane markings in the middle of the right traffic lanes of the Ellsworth-Lyon couplet in downtown Albany. This is long enough for me to venture the conclusion that these so-called sharrows don’t actually work.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: downtown Albany couplet, Ellsworth and Lyon, Hiughway 20, ODOT, shared lane markings, sharrows

Where bike path ends, solution in the works

Written May 2nd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

If you ride your bike south on the Periwinkle Bikepath, you come to a dead end at Queen Avenue, where the path stops in the middle of the block. This may change soon.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Public Works, ODOT, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary, Queen Avenue, Safe Routes to School, sharrows

Three letters on the asphalt: Puzzling it out

Written July 6th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Last year the city had five blocks of Ninth Avenue in west Albany repaved, and the new asphalt was marked with “sharrows” wherever someone had sprayed the letters “SLM.” What could that stand for, I wondered now and then as the bike took me across these marks.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary
Tags: bicycling, road markings, shared line markers, shared line markings, sharing the road, sharrows

On Lyon, less space for cyclists

Written September 21st, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 8 responses.

I wonder if this is what the designers had in mind: Putting the sidewalk that close to heavy traffic in front of the new Albany Fire Department’s Station 11 and Hasty Freez, one of the best burger-and-shake joints in town.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, Downtown streets, Fire Station 11, Hasty Freez, Lyon and Ellsworth, Lyon sidewalk, sharrows, sidewalk extensions

HASSO HERING

About those sharrows: Do they work?

Questioning ‘sharrows’ on downtown couplet

Where bike path ends, solution in the works

Three letters on the asphalt: Puzzling it out

On Lyon, less space for cyclists