Kevin and all,
The consultants and staff and I have been struggling with this for a
year or more. There are no obvious good solutions. Sharrows across the
bridge, where speeds regularly exceed 50 MPH, do not seem safe to me nor
to the traffic engineers.
If you are WB, most likely you are on the path already. But if you're on
street, you exit the off ramp to old Middleton, then loop back on the
path under the bridge, take a left and continue west. There will be
signage. It's about 800 feet out of the way. http://goo.gl/maps/7Ov0
If you are EB, headed, say, to Segoe, you'd take Whitney Way to Old
Middleton and up the ramp. http://goo.gl/maps/SS4e
Both are sub-optimal until the bridge is rebuilt. Suggestions welcome
and encouraged.
Mark C.
On 3/18/2011 3:49 PM Kevin Luecke wrote:
Hi Al.
That is interesting news on the lack of pedestrian accommodations on
that stretch of University - I had not heard that.
The bicycle access that is proposed is problematic to me. As I
understand it, there will not be bike lanes on University from Whitney
Way to Segoe (or thereabouts), which is the section with the bridge
over the rail corridor. Bicyclists will be expected to exit at Whitney
or Old Middleton Road (depending on their direction of travel, take
the path along the rail and Old Middleton, and then connect back onto
University. The rational is that the bridge does not have enough room
for bike lanes.
This seems ridiculous to me. If I am riding to Middleton, I will have
to exit the most direct route, cut under University, go to Whitney,
then cross back across University to get back to the lane. The better
solution to me is to provide the lanes up to the bridge and then have
sharrows across the bridge in the outer lane along with signs that
bicyclists may use the full lane. When the bridge is eventually
rebuilt, full lanes can be added at that time.
The convoluted route they are planning can also be marked for less
confident cyclists who may not want to cross the bridge in the lane,
but I doubt if those people will be on University in the first place.
Kevin
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