I’ve noticed that a number of the waterfront cycle track candlesticks* have been knocked over. If I had to guess, it’s 5-10% of them. After seeing this happen, I read over at Bike Portland that a similar thing is happening to a bike lane where candlesticks were only just installed to keep drivers from driving in the bike lane.

What does this say about the quality of driver on the road when devices designed to constrain drivers and protect vulnerable road users are knocked over or destroyed with regularity?

The photos below are from 29th and Liberty where after we asked the city to do something about the crosswalk there they installed yield signs that were subsequently destroyed in short order.

* Candlesticks create a barrier between auto and bike traffic and they prevent people from driving cars inside the bike lane