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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
It's terrible lane design.
The bike lane should cut in (with dotted lines) so that it is between the through vehicle traffic and the turning vehicle traffic. Turning vehicles should signal and cross the dotted portion of the bike lane when clear of bikes, and then enter the turning lane, free to focus on vehicle traffic, not bikes:
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This is what we have a lots of places in Vancouver and it works quite well.
When there's not enough room to build this cross over lane, the other method is having a separate light for the bikes and not allowing right turns on red for the cars.
The car turn lane will have a flashing right turn signal that coincides with the bike lane have a red light (and pedestrians stopped too).
When the bikers have a green light, right turners have a red and can't turn.
The setup on this OP is a failed design.