These changes will help, but the underlying problem with this intersection is that it's really complicated and confusing. Bikers are always trying to second-guess the signals, because the signals are set up for cars or pedestrians, and sometimes they guess wrong.
I think it might be useful to have a special set of signals for bicycles at this corner, to tell bikes when it's safe to cross the street, or move to the median, or whatever. It might also be a good idea to find a way to encourage bikers to cross Willy St. at Blount instead of Blair. This might seem counterintuitive (and it would require another traffic light), but the Blount St. crossing is a lot simpler than the Willy/Wilson/Nolen/Blair intersection. Ross, Arthur wrote: > Interim repairs to the railroad crossing of Wilson Street at the > intersection of John Nolen Drive, Blair Street and Williamson Street > will begin Monday July 30 and are expected to continue until Wednesday > August 8th. The railroad crossing will be repaved, and a cut-in at the > island will allow for a straighter crossing of the tracks by bicyclists. > A bike lane will also be marked on westbound Williamson and Wilson > Streets in this area. See > http://www.cityofmadison.com/trafficengineering/documents/WilsonBlairInt > erimJuly2007.pdf for a drawing of these changes. > > Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator > City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division > 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Suite 100 > PO Box 2986 > Madison, WI 53701-2986 > 608/266-6225 > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > > _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
