The planned bike lanes and boxes that we reported back in September have finally appeared on Broad Street on the block between Farmington Avenue and Capitol Avenue.

The bike boxes are on both ends of the block, to give cyclists a head start at intersections.

The bike lanes are delineated — no confusing sharrows here — but cars were observed being driven into the lanes and stopping inside of the bike boxes. It seems a public education component is the next step to making the streets safer for all users.

Learn more about this bicycle infrastructure over at the Beat Bike Blog.