Shoal Creek Report #2

Well, I ended up driving down Shoal Creek last night on the way home from work (from 2222 to 41st St.) due to a traffic jam, ironically right after reading a thread on the Allandale neighborhood group in which residents are grumbling about the project now that they’re seeing it ‘in action’.
This trip confirmed some things that I saw before, and conflicted with some things that residents of the street have previously said.

1. I saw more cars parked this time
2. I saw one vehicle turn into the ‘shared lane’ and drive down it for at least a block before turning right off Shoal Creek
3. The apparent space between the white line and the parked car looks much smaller when I’m driving than it does when I’m biking, and it didn’t look big on my bike. Hopefully this will result in drivers being more patient when cyclists take the lane.
4. I only passed one cyclist (going the opposite direction) during my drive. It’s not surprising that most motorists thus think conflicts with cyclists and parked cars are rare — for each motorist trip, there’s a very low chance of conflict; but for each cyclist trip, there’s a very high chance of conflict. (There’s ten or twenty drivers for each cyclist at a bare minimum – even though this road has a lot of cyclists, there’s still far more motorists).
5. Most motorists I observed drifted over the white lines on turns. I don’t know how to solve this.