A complete contradiction from Chelan County.
Cyclists pushed the County to increase public awareness of the need for all users to share the road. The Wenatchee World reports that cyclists are concerned due to recent motor vehicle-bicycle collisions. “They will go mainly on county roads between Wenatchee and Leavenworth, on both sides of Highway 2/97. Additional signs will go on Squilchuck Road and Malaga-Alcoa Highway south of Wenatchee.”
Sounds like a great solution, right? Not so fast . . . Public Works Director Jolene Gosslin-Campbell is quoted as saying “most of our roads are not bicycle friendly” and that cyclists should not expect the roads to be up to bike-trail standards.
Gosslin-Campbell’s comment evidences an ignorance of what the law is in Washington. Bicycles are vehicles that are entitled to travel on the road. Chelan County has a duty to exercise ordinary care to maintain reasonably safe streets such that they are “fit for ordinary travel.” (Keller v. City of Spokane 104 Wn.App. 545, 552-56 (2001))
I say, if your roads are not bicycle friendly then maybe it’s going to take more than 12 signs to fix the problem.
RCW 46.04.670 (in part) “Vehicle” includes every device capable of being moved upon a public highway and in, upon, or by which any persons or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, including bicycles.
A brief excerpt: “All existing vehicle-activated traffic control signals that do not currently routinely and reliably detect motorcycles and bicycles must be adjusted to do so to the extent that the existing equipment is capable consistent with safe traffic control. Priority must be given to existing vehicle-activated traffic control signals for which complaints relating to motorcycle or bicycle detection have been received and existing vehicle-activated traffic control signals that are otherwise identified as a detection problem for motorcyclists or bicyclists, or both.” 
