Highlights for Kids

In a short stretch of just three mile along my ride to work, I can play a real life game of Highlights for Kids with the city's bike lane signage. Spot the Difference!

I try to come up with unique names for all the different personalities that show up.

Squatty Floating Mushroom Head (AKA Dwyer's Grotesque Shoulder)

Chevron Ghost Rider

Elongated Mushroom Head Mime

Virgin and Child

Layin' it on Thick

Shin-Splitter Squatty Mushroom Head

If you've read the book Switch by Chip and Dan Heath, then this week's bike adventure is begging you to ask an obvious question. If we let the City of Cincinnati know that they are using six different standards for marking roads, will that save them $1,000,000,000 in system inefficiencies? If that's the case, then I vote to use the savings to make sure that each bike commuter in the city gets to have one of the road markings painted in their image. And mine is going to be like this guy's.