The first leg of Victoria's controversial protected bike lane project is open on Pandora Avenue.
The north side of Pandora will have two lanes for bikers traveling both north and south between Cook and Store Street.
Driving school instructor Steve Wallace. "It is counter-intuitive it may work but I have my concerns. When I compare it to other jurisdictions it doesn't happen very often it happens on the Galloping Goose but there is not that corresponding traffic and there are all sorts of escapes and so on."
Mayor Lisa Helps will be using the bike lane herself and she thinks people will figure it out.
"I liken it to when cars first hit city streets back in the early 20th century lots of people freaking out pedestrians freaking out these new vehicles on the roads using new infrastructure aka, paved roads and back then people had to pay a bit of extra attention and right now people do again as well."
There are a few things drivers and bikers will have to adapt to including new traffic signals. The city will have staff on the streets to monitor how people are coping.
Full details can be found in the city of Victoria's website.
The Pandora bike lanes are part of the cities city’s $9-million cycling project.