Does anyone know how to get something put on the agenda for the PBMVC?
Blocking off the wide lane would seem to be a very reasonable action, and
PBMVC should start the ball rolling.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul T. O'Leary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] SW Commuter Bicycle Path Car/Bike Collision
LastThursday (6/8)
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.
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Paul T. O'Leary
Desktop Insurgent
Madison WI USA
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