Here are pictures of the lane intended for bicyclists to use on a feeder road near Ottawa Int’l. airport.
As can be seen, there is ample opportunity for danger based on merging lanes on either side of the bike lane. For this reason, I regularly avoid using the bike lane in favour of the much safer paved shoulder. Given the gradual, obscured dog-leg right around the curve, it seems hard to imagine anyone on two non-motorized wheels feeling safe in the bike lane.
Do traffic engineers who include bike lanes in repaved stretches give thought to how safe the net result really is?
the watch of time 
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