Actually, I think you mean westbound bike traffic, Mitch. And I think all six of the non- diagonal "spur" blocks off the square could use counterflow lanes. The big problem is that in all cases, the angle parking is to the left, meaning those backing out of those spaces would have to take a hard-right look for approaching bikes. This sorta violates a general rule with angle parking. Generally, angle parking doesn't involve backing out "across" one lane/direction of traffic to get to one's own lane. The only alternatives I see to this are (1) switch the angle parking to the right side of each of these blocks, or (2) push the parking further into the main-flow lane, and run the counterflow lane between the parking and the sidewalk.
I presume that, whatever shape it takes, it means the sidewalk cafes on the "bulb-outs" at the diagonal corners will have to go, right? From: Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> Copies to: [email protected], Dan Ross <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bikies] New traffic lights on Mifflin bike boulevard > The lights sound like a good idea. It would also be nice to put a contraflow > lane on the > 100 block of E. Mifflin, so that eastbound bikes would have a legal way to > get to the > Square on the bike boulevard. > > Is anything like that in the works? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robbie Webber" <[email protected]> > To: "Dan Ross" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 6:13:40 PM > Subject: Re: [Bikies] New traffic lights on Mifflin bike boulevard > > Yup, you are right. It is pretty sparse, and that's not good. I know > as much as you do, also from Brenda's blog, except that I am already > familiar with HAWK signals. > > I'm trying to get Traffic Engineering to provide more info, so the > public can see it BEFORE the meeting Tuesday. I'll let you know > if/when it gets posted. > > > Robbie Webber > PBMVC Chair > > > > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Dan Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > > I looked at the Ped/Bike agenda for this coming Tuesday and it's pretty > > sparse: > _______________________________________________ > 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 --------------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
