I never rode in the bike lane on Western -- it was absolutely unsafe to do so. Of course, that meant never riding on Western because the road was narrower than it had been before the lane was painted, and drivers didn't know that the bike lane was unusable. Since I was out for the entire day when I got that far from home, I could find alternatives -- or walk beside the road when short stretches were unavoidable -- but the president of the bike club had to give up commuting when the bike lane was painted.