I love the new bike lane! As Mike mentioned, this was in the Platinum report as has been in the works since East Mifflin was designated as a bike boulevard. My inderstanding is that a full light is coming to the intersection of East Mifflin and Webster (which will really help with morning crossings of Webster) and a bike light at Mifflin and Hamilton where the new counter-flow bike lane ends. I would love to see counter flow lanes like this on all of the one-way spurs leading to/from the Square.
If you visit Bike Madison (http://www.cityofmadison.com/bikeMadison/), which is a great new city resource, you will see that a cycletrack is listed for the Mifflin side of the Square in the planning section. I think this is still a ways off, but there is a lot of discussion on how to facilitate two-way bicycle traffic from the Mifflin bike boulevard to State Street and West Mifflin (and then on to the Missing Link). I would love to see a counter-flow track of some sort all the way around the square. Have you ever seen parallel one-way streets that run in the same direction? Let alone squares that do that? I would venture that there is more sidewalk riding and wrong-way riding on the Square than anywhere else in the city, and it is because bicyclists have to go so far out of the way if they follow the traffic patterns. The city did a great job with the Mifflin counter-flow lane & it will be even better once the final signage and lights are in - keep it up! Kevin Message: 8 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:00:47 -0500 From: "Robert F. Nagel" <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [Bikies] 100 block e mifflin and the outer loop Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" normally i see a post here lauding new bike-friendly city actions, but i haven't seen one yet about the new construction on the 100 block of e mifflin and the outer loop; especially notable is the counter-flow lane in the 100 block of e mifflin and looks like there'll be a bike lane in the outer loop who knows what caused that to happen? who knows what else we might have to look forward to around the square or elsewhere? -- *Kevin Luecke** *Lead Planner, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin www.bfw.org | 608-251-4456
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