bike lane markers around town
22 May 2008, 7:34 pmSomerville has been freshening up the bike lane markers. First they indicate where they should go:

Then they stencil the marker right on top:

Sometimes this makes it look like the iconic cyclist is wearing a cliché asian peasant hat

The narrow headed Somervillian riders make some of their skullish Cantabridgian counterparts look rather macabre in comparison:

Especially since some of them look much more definitively helmet-like. Or, perhaps the lanes are reserved for bicycle-riding, mushroom-headed mutants!

Meanwhile, toward Arlington, bicycles ride themselves!

I can’t resist… “In Soviet Russia, the bicycle rides you!”