From: "Mitchell Nussbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> The "accident" report is on-line at: > http://www.cityofmadison.com/police/accidents/mpddata/police_d/acrpt/nolava/pdfs/00020a21.pdf. > > Apparently the offending driver, heading westbound (uphill) passed to the > right of a stopped car, and plowed into a bicyclist who was crossing the > street. The report says the bicyclist was treated by the EMT and > released, so the crash was apparently not as bad as feared when I read the > report in madison.com. > > I'd like to see the city make changes to the crossing to improve its > safety, but I don't think a four-way stop would help. Stop signs are not > magic; some of my scariest moments on a bike have happened at stop signs. > > But I think it might help to narrow the pavement at this crossing, to make > it physically impossible to pass on the right near the bike path, and to > shorten bikes' exposure. If possible, I'd like to see the median widened > to provide more space for bikes with trailers. > > Does idea this make sense to the experts on this list? Perhaps I should > propose it as a bike-ped project for next year. It makes sense to me as a user of this intersection. Odana Rd. is NOT two lanes in each direction at that point; having it wide enough for two cars physically to pass is pointless, and leads to things like this. In the bicyclist's favor is that the officer, drawing the picture of the scene, marked the path crossing as "crosswalk". What's confounding is that, given the driver (1) passed on the right (2) in a non-existent lane (3) striking someone in a crosswalk, he wasn't ticketed. --------------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
