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However, the green lanes have ruffled some feathers in Santa Barbara’s architecture community, and many feel that they don’t belong.
“I think that these green lanes are a standard type of solution for use in large cities where there is heavy traffic in bikes and automobiles together,” Cassandra Ensberg, a local Santa Barbara architect, told Noozhawk. “However, I think these green stripes on State Street are overkill, confusing, and a very inappropriate solution that does not solve the problem.”
City crews have begun painting bright green lane striping along the center of State Street in Santa Barbara, with the aim of giving bicyclists their own path along the corridor and easing pedestrian-bicyclist conflicts. (Jade Martinez-Pogue / Noozhawk photo)