Paul, I tend to agree with you about marking the route. I am almost a convert.... :). I'll give the "new route" a chance before I send out any more requests for a new signal at Park & Haywood.
-India ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul T. O'Leary" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009 10:00 pm Subject: Re: [Bikies] Crossing South Park St (Was: Crossing Regent at Monroe- separate signal) To: [email protected] > From: "John Rider" <[email protected]> > separate signal) > > > The City recently (1.5 years ago?) put in a stoplight one block > north of > > Haywood at Erin St. It is really easy to use Brooks St between > Haywood and > > Erin (go under the ped bridge between the hospital and the new parking > > structure) and use the stop light at Erin to cross Park St. I > believe that > > the neighborhood worked hard to get a stoplight in that stretch > between Fish > > Hatch and W Wash, and Erin is where it ended up being located since > it also > > allows for all traffic to have a signalized crossing of Park St, not > just > > peds and bikes as would be the case at Haywood. I use both crossings > > depending on the time of day and my willingness to leapfrog my way > over to > > the sidewalk next to the car wash driveway. > > That's become my new route to the Arb/Vilas area ever since that light > went in. I > personally don't see any need for yet another light between there and > Fish Hatch. But now > that it's been mentioned, doesn't this mean that any Bike Route signs > that direct folks > onto Haywood are out of date? Shouldn't they be relocated/reconfigured > to make the route > John describes the "Bike Route"? > > --------------------- > Paul T. O'Leary > Desktop Insurgent > Madison WI USA > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
