Is reducing the speed limit an option? -Kristy
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Mark Clear <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Kevin Luecke > Lead Planner, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin > www.bfw.org > 608-251-4456 > > <http://www.bfw.org/> <http://bikefed.blogspot.com/> > <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/bike.fed.wi?ref=ts> > <http://twitter.com/search?q=BikeFed> <http://delicious.com/network/BikeFed> > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing > [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 > >
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