Why not just stripe bike lanes instead of sharrows on city streets?
Bicycle lanes are preferred to sharrows as a bikeway design treatment, but not all streets have enough room for bicycle lanes due to high demand for on-street parking and/or the inability to eliminate or narrow regular traffic lanes. As a general principle, widening roads to provide bike lanes is not practical in the downtown core or in residential areas. However, on some roadways, minor widenings may be feasible at the time of reconstruction. On streets where bicycle lanes cannot be accommodated, the City will be using sharrow markings instead.
