Are "Jersey barriers" those concrete wall segments, that look like shrunk-down versions of a freeway wall? That will be interesting, and may actually constitute a PLUS for east-bound users. The existing counter-flow lane is, like the bus lane on the other side, routinely blocked by illegal users, such as delivery vans, limos, and even a horse-drawn carriage. Unlike the blockage of the west-bound lane, however, this leaves east-bounders with NO other means east. So a barrier of this height might actually help physically enforce the access to this lane.
If that turns out to be the case, I would recommend (and yeah, I know, I'll do it "through channels") that when the dust is cleared on this project, that such a barrier system be installed between the westbound car lanes and the eastbound bike lane for its entire length. Seems to me like a cheap, fabulously effective solution to a long-standing, potentially deadly problem about which nothing else has, as far as I can tell, EVER been done. > > From: "KENNEDY, Robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/06/15 Thu PM 02:35:31 CDT > To: "Tom Theisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [Bikies] University Square Reconstruction > > It's the westbound bikes that will share the northern, westbound bus > lane. That's difficult enough. The eastbound bikes will have their own > contra-flow lane to the south protected by Jersey barriers. > > > > Rob > > > > > > Rob Kennedy, Ph.D. > > Senior Transportation Planner > > 856 WARF, 610 Walnut St. > > University of Wisconsin > > Madison, WI 53726 > > 608/263-3027 > > Fax: 608/262-0352 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Theisen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Bikies] University Square Reconstruction > > > > > East bound bicyclists will share the North restricted lane with buses. > > > > Aren't the buses in the north restricted lane west bound? Is it just > > me or does this sound like it will cause a lot of head-on situations? > > I think I'd rather use Johnson than go the wrong way in a bus lane. > > > > > --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
