From: larry_scholnick@yahoo.com   
      
   I'm sure you've all seen the trend to mark a lane as shared between bicycles   
   and motor vehicles.  Some such lanes even post a sign "Bicycles may use entire   
   lane".   
      
   I recently encountered such a situation in which the city (Thousand Oaks, CA)   
   painted a depiction of a bicycle on the pavement (near the right edge of the   
   lane) every couple of hundred feet; in doing this, they used extra thick paint   
   so that drivers    
   would hear a thump each time they drove over a painted bicycle.   
      
   I hope they didn't do this as a way to get drivers used to running over   
   bicycles!   
      
   Zoom, zoom, zoom, ka-thump, zoom, zoom, zoom, ka-thump.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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