WooHoo!! The Sherman Avenue bridge reconstruction is done and the street open. No more squeezing two directions of bicycle traffic and two sidewalks' worth of pedestrians into one narrow temporary wooden bridge.
There's now a "traffic-calming" island, which probably isn't a bad thing, but does anyone know the resulting lane width there compared to what it was before? Arthur? One nice thing about Sherman (not to be confused with North Sherman, which isn't always so nice) is that the lane is wide enough for bicycles and MVs to coexist reasonably well. I went through there later than usual today and yesterday so there wasn't a lot of traffic to be able to judge it well (nor did I stop to look more closely), but was the roadway widened at the curb(s) to compensate for the width of the island or is it indeed narrower? (I know that narrowing the road is part of what gets drivers to slow down, but there's something in simply the visual effect that works, too. ) Essentially, my question is whether there's still room for bikes and cars side-by-side or if bikes and cars get squeezed together at the island if there's a lot of car traffic. I have no problem with taking the lane--and I'll certainly find out first-hand when I first encounter traffic there--but I figured others might want to be alerted to the reconstruction also. Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino >From the Department of Military Intelligence and Jumbo Shrimp: Sign seen on a recently poisoned lawn: TruGreen/ChemLawn ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
