North- and south-bound Jackson have stop signs, so a yield on St. Paul wouldn't make sense. Besides, people wouldn't associate a yield/stop on St. Paul with the hazard at the path crossing. People would just stop or slow there, and then still hammer it down Jackson as they cross the path.
But yield signs on Jackson at the path would help, as would an advisory/warning sign on west-bound St. Paul saying something like "Left Turn. YIELD to Path Traffic After Turn". There are no stop signs on the path at Jackson, so as of now, it's an uncontrolled intersection, so yield signs on Jackson would make sense. From: Martin Lund <[email protected]> > 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 --------------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
