Arizona Bike Law includes a page titled with what seems like a rhetorical question: “Is This A Bike Lane?”
The question becomes not-so-rhetorical because they answer: No, according to the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices, the transportation engineers’ “Bible.” But the city of Phoenix, where the pictured “bike lanes” are located, insist that shoulder strips just wide enough for a bicycle tire “separated” from lanes where buses, trucks and SUVs roam by a line of paint is safer than riding in the roadway.
