This bicyclist seems mistrustful of the Main Street sharrows.

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Walking to the merchant meeting at the Culbertson Mansion on Tuesday morning, I’d just crossed Main Street when I saw a person on a bicycle coming toward me, eastbound.

At first glance, seconds before I took the photo, he was riding in the otherwise empty parking lane with a couple of cars approaching behind him. The bump-out was just ahead of him, and he was going to be compelled to move out into the “sharrows” lane whether he liked it or not. There was some hesitancy, but he did.

The driver of the first car chose the opportunity afforded at the median-free 10th Street intersection to quickly pass the bicycle on the left. Maybe he didn’t want to share the road, after all.

I thought to myself: “Just imagine what the Main Street design might have been under capable leadership, and with reality-based design.”

Damn, that guy looks familiar.

Nah, couldn’t be.

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