A stop sign is probably overkill. The intersection is Jackson Street & St. Paul Avenue, just north of the bike path. West bound traffic on St. Paul, while not heavy, tends to hit that left hand turn onto Jackson Street hard and fast. The problem is that this traffic then immediately crosses the painted crosswalk linking the bike path.
I live one block away and am in and around this intersection a lot on foot and on bicycle. I've seen a lot of close-calls, particularly involving pedestrians. On the other hand, perhaps the frequency with which I visit the intersection only makes it seem worse than others. In any case, the other day I took the offending left hard turn for the first time on my motorcycle and realized that if I didn't already know there was a bike path crossing right around the corner, I would probably just blow on through like everyone else! We get traffic cutting through from Milwaukee Street, as well as folks using Ohio to St. Paul to Jackson as a turn-around for Atwood Avenue -- I don't imagine these folks know to expect the bike path cross walk. There is a yellow bicycle sign for traffic traveling South on Jackson, but due to the specific location of the sign, traffic turning left off of St. Paul misses this sign entirely. Perhaps an additional bicycle sign or a yield might be a good move. Additionally, a sign on the bike path for east and west bound cyclists and pedestrians might be beneficial. Any feedback would be great. Thanks, Martin On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:53 PM, tim wong <[email protected]> wrote: > What intersection(s) are you talking about? There are functioning traffic > committees; Mitch is right. I can forward it to the relevant people . . . . > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Martin Lund <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Which office(s)/person(s) should be contacted if folks would like to see a >> stop or yield sign added to a particular intersection in their neighborhood? >> This would be for the Atwood area in Madison. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bikies mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >> >> > > > -- > "The system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the > faithful." --quoted in John Dower, *Cultures of War* > > >
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