Victhor The Viking

Like any of the motorist around here are actually going to pay attention to this anyway.

Recently the City of Austin has been installing some brand new (to us) bicycle-specific signage and facilities, namely sharrows and now a set of “Bike Boxes” (aka. advance stop line) at Speedway and 38th Street, seen below:

(photo taken from forum link below, credit to Tim Diller)

Unlike the bike boxes I’m typically used to seeing online and during my trip to Portland, there’s no color differentiation between the bike box and the regular asphalt, and there’s no additional signage to indicate that traffic should stop at the line beyond what is printed on the street itself.