"Share the road" signs -- who are we telling to share the road?

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Matt O.

Matt O'Toole wrote:

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Either way....
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Live simply so that others may simply live

Matt O'Toole wrote:
I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Matt O.

I believe they are directed towards the MV's.

Ken
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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the
human race. ~H.G. Wells

Neil Brooks wrote:
Matt O'Toole wrote:

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Either way....
--

Yes, that would seem to be what share means.

Matt O'Toole writes:

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Since they are one and the same, but live lives like Jekyll and Hyde,
they are to the same person in different disguise. Just the same, I
believe it is the Mr. Hyde who is being addressed. When in his car,
he believes his mission has greater importance than some jerk plying
with his bicycle on his highway. Some of these drivers even have a
couple of bicycles on their darkened window jacked up black SUV's.

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Jobst Brandt

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:51:11 +0000, Neil Brooks wrote:

Matt O'Toole wrote:

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Either way....

And you think that's right?

Matt O.

Matt O'Toole wrote:

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:51:11 +0000, Neil Brooks wrote:

Matt O'Toole wrote:

I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Either way....

And you think that's right?

I'm ok with it.

Each really does need to watch for the other. Neither should rely on
the other to do all the accommodating ... despite the overwhelming
lethality of one relative to the other.

My $0.02
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I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

They are telling the other guy to share. I'm already perfect

Absolutly!!! I think the sign should show an overhead view of a car
following a bicycle between lanes stripes, solid right and dashed left,
sort of like a 'right lane ends' sign.

Matt O'Toole wrote:
I wonder what everyone thinks about "share the road" signs. I think
they're too ambiguous about whom they're telling to share the road
(bicyclists or motorists).

Matt O.

Here in South Cackalacky the signs are a bright day-glo chartruse, very
hard not to notice. I find drivers very courteous here. Then again, I do
most of my riding out on country roads. From what I hear from other
cyclists who are unfortunate enough to have to ride in the cities, it's
not as nice there.

Don't know myself SC cities are worse than in El Lay, but I see no
reason to find out either.

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