and at a minimum to ask their snow clearer to please drop push snow in front of the paved pave from the bike path into the parking lot area. It would clearly be easy to do if the people doing the plowing had any clue that it's a bikeway.
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Michael Rewey <[email protected]> wrote: > ** > It's the Mullen family. > > Arthur, Matt brings up a good point. The city should contact them > about a temporary easement for biking. > > Mike > > -------------------------------------------------- > > On 13 Feb 2012 at 19:37, Matt Logan wrote: > > Has anybody tried to contact the owner of this property? > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Ross, Arthur > *Sent:* Monday, February 13, 2012 4:47 PM > *To:* bikies > *Subject:* Re: [Bikies] Blocked Connection Between East Mifflin and > Yahara Bike Path > > Tim wrote < whoever is "clearing" the snow has pushed the snow into > the way of the path that allows a bike to get from the Yahara bike path > into the parking lot that continues behind the Washington Square building > and at Dickinson becomes East Mifflin. This is a heavily bike corridor and > should not be blocked. You have to walk your bike over ice slush and > railroad tracks to get to the path.> > > > Kathryn responded < I thought the parking lot/Yahara connection was > private property.> > > > Kathryn is correct, the parking lot is private property and the city > does not have an easement to allow public use of this parking lot for > bicyclists and/or pedestrians. Both the Bike Route and the Mifflin Street > Bicycle Boulevard connect to/from the Yahara River Path via Dickinson and > Dayton Streets. When that property is redeveloped at some point in the > future the city will request an easement for ped/bike access to continue > the Mifflin Street alignment to the Yahara River Path for pedestrians and > bicyclists. > > > Arthur > > > Arthur Ross, Pedestrian-Bicycle Coordinator > > City of Madison Traffic Engineering Division > > 215 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Suite 100 > > PO Box 2986 > > Madison, WI 53701-2986 > > 608/266-6225 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > -- "If we continue to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children or their children or their children's children are going to look back on us--on you and me--and say to themselves, 'My God, what kind of monsters were these people?'" --Daniel Quinn
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