Hi Shady- I have communicated the concerns of neighbors and bikies about safety on the bike path from Blount St through the Atwood neighbor to Olbrich to Traffic Engineering for several years. I'm sorry it is taking so long, I know it is frustrating for many of you who witness the near misses. I agree there have been too many near misses and too many crashes.
It is budget season and I have made it a priority to request the improvement of this stretch of E Wilson and Baldwin and review the entire Cap Trail for enhanced bike, pedestrian and motor vehicle safety. In the rail corridor I have been advocating for table-topping (raising) the bike path as it crosses the non-signalized intersections. I support looking at creating a true bike boulevard for the E Wilson on-street portion of the bike path and at turning E Wilson into a one way street. I've also requested additional street lighting. Others on this list have offered good ideas such as bumpouts at Baldwin and Dickinson to improve sightlines. I think we need to design a better bike boulevard and safer intersections because traffic enforcement is not a reliable solution. I will keep trying to get this addressed. I am copying Mayor Soglin, we are meeting later this week to discuss budget issues. The MNA traffic committee has discussed this issue. And safety of the Cap City path has the attention of the Bikies list as well. Thanks- Marsha ________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 3:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MarqNA] Yet another bike-car crash at East Wilson and Baldwin I'm so glad that there are other neighbors asking for a safer traffic situation on E. Wilson St. I've spoken with almost every family that lives in the Park Central town homes facing the bike boulevard. They all agree that something has to be done to make our street safer for bikes and vehicles. I sent the following email over a year ago and never received a response from Marsha or anyone from the city. I really hope that something happens soon to make Wilson St safer before there is another PREVENTABLE death. I believe an even better solution than stop signs, speed bumps or round a bouts, would be to make the 1100, 1200 and 1300 blocks of E Wilson one way and make space for an actual bike path. It scares me so much to see parents with their children riding inside of bike trailers and children having to ride their bikes in the unsafe, barely marked street. We could just wait for Central Park to be built, and there maybe be a bike path, but who really knows how long that will be before it actually happens? I am NOT willing to wait for my children and neighbors to be safe in 2, 5 or 10 yrs, it needs to happen now! Someone suggested getting a petition going. Would that possibly help move things along? Shadayra ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores <[email protected]> To: JamesWolfe <[email protected]>; Marsha Rummel <[email protected]> Cc: DavidDryer <[email protected]>; CarlGloede <[email protected]>; ArthurRoss <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 4:14 PM Subject: Re: E Wilson bike boulevard traffic concerns Hello fellow citizens, The traffic situation, cars vs bikes, on East Wilson is extremely unsafe and I fear for peoples lives. The issues that I contacted Marsha about are: 1. Speeding: It was bad to begin with but IT HAS ONLY GOTTEN WORSE since we spoke! I STILL have not seen a single officer or squad car in the Ingersoll/Wilson area since construction began. I'm terrified for the bikers, especially the young ones, CHILDREN, who are NOW FORCED to bike on the street with speeding cars. 2. Inadequate lighting: There is almost NO so called "street lighting" to speak of between the 1100 (Ingersoll) to 1300 (Baldwin) blocks of E. Wilson. There is only 1 street light near the Few/E Wilson intersection. This is UNSAFE and may even be against some city code. I believe that action ought to be taken immediately before someone else dies. (The lack of lighting has nothing to do w/ current construction or wires, they just don't ex hist!) POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS: 1. Post an officer during rush hour at the corner of E. Main and Ingersoll. Speeders do not seem to be coming off of E Wash, they are coming from E. Main, clearly traffic the has been diverted from Willy St. 2. Add street lights ASAP. 3. Add speed bumps or a turn about on E Wilson to try to slow traffic. They have them on Mifflin St which is also considered to be a "bike boulevard" and is used much LESS frequently. 4. Put in 4 way stop signs or turn abouts at the Ingersoll/E Wilson and Baldwin/E Wilson intersections. I grew up in the WIL-MAR neighborhood and have lived in Park Central Apartments for 3 yrs with my children. I have sat and observed many near accidents on the "bike boulevard" and 1 unfortunate death that could have been avoided. The lack of an actual bike path has been a concern of mine before moving in. I appreciate you helping to make our community a safer place to live (and travel). Thank you. Sincerely, Shadayra Kilfoy-Flores --- On Wed, 4/13/11, Marsha Rummel <[email protected]> wrote: From: Marsha Rummel <[email protected]> Subject: Re: E Wilson bike boulevard traffic concerns To: "Wolfe, James" <[email protected]> Cc: "Dryer, David" <[email protected]>, "Gloede, Carl" <[email protected]>, "Ross, Arthur" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, April 13, 2011, 5:19 PM Interesting... you never know what you'll find when you start digging, eh?! Marsha On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Wolfe, James <[email protected]<UrlBlockedError.aspx>> wrote: I believe that I can explain the street lighting issue. The lights are supposed to be maintained on Willy St., but when they were excavating the old pavement, they found that the wire for some of the lights was actually installed within that pavement, so it got pulled out because the contractor didn’t know about it. I believe that the plan now is to try to get some temporary overhead wires to these street lights to get them running again. I’m not sure how quickly they’ll be able to do this because it will take some electrical work, but they’re working on it Jim From: Marsha Rummel [mailto:[email protected]<UrlBlockedError.aspx>] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:08 AM To: Dryer, David; Wolfe, James; Gloede, Carl; Ross, Arthur Cc: [email protected]<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Subject: E Wilson bike boulevard traffic concerns A resident called to say that traffic is speeding on E Wilson between Ingersoll and Baldwin. Shady also expressed concern that the lack of streetlighting on Willy from the 1000-1200 blocks made it more dangerous to bike on Willy at night. Arthur, can you or someone post a note on Bikies letting them know what is going on? Thanks ________________________________ From: Matt Logan <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2012 11:00 AM Subject: RE: [MarqNA] Yet another bike-car crash at East Wilson and Baldwin I took a look at road user behavior along Wilson this morning, and I did in fact see many people failing to stop as the law requires. In fact 3 out of the first 4 cars I saw failed to stop properly, and actually that number would be 4 out of 4 if you count the fact that the one car that did stop came to rest in the crosswalk rather than behind the stop line. Clearly, the problem is not isolated to bicyclists . Unfortunately, enforcement is a temporary remedy at best, as I learned from my years of experience on the Pedestrian-Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Commission. It is well known by Traffic Engineers that when a cross street (or cross walk) has relatively little traffic, traffic controls have little effect for humans operating bicycles or automobiles. Given the fact that enforcement is unlikely to produce a long-term benefit, the next best solution is to modify the intersection to at least make those people who will continue to run the stop signs safer. I like the idea of adding a 5-foot bump out along Baldwin and Dickinson to create a larger safe-area for users on Wilson to use for an emergency stop, and to slow down the traffic on Baldwin and Dickinson to reduce the potential damage that will occur the next time there is a crash. =Matt From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathan Phoenix Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 6:50 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Rummel, Marsha Subject: Re: [MarqNA] Yet another bike-car crash at East Wilson and Baldwin Marsha, Has anything happened with Engineering? I've spoken with the bike safety people and others at the MPD several times this year alone asking that they station an officer on E. Wilson to enforce the stop signs for cyclists -- one can sit at any stop sign on the 1200 and 1300 blocks between 7 and 9 AM, or on the return commute, and record literally dozens of cyclists blowing through the stop signs in a few minutes. The best I got was the suggestion that this area might be included in an enforcement grant at some later date. While Madison Window Cleaning and Madison Metro drivers have been known to speed significantly on our street, by and large our neighbors do not -- when they're driving, at least -- and in my experience, the far larger safety issue seems to be commuting cyclists on the bike path who seem to feel that breaking their cadence is worse than breaking traffic laws and raising the levels of risk and mistrust on our neighborhood roads. Anyone know of any progress from the city on this? Nathan On May 26, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Rummel, Marsha wrote: I have requested that Traffic Engineering address the Baldwin and Dickinson intersections to improve safety ASAP. Marsha ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of L. C. Schroeder [[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 6:41 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MarqNA] Yet another bike-car crash at East Wilson and Baldwin Sure, everybody needs to try to be responsible for themselves. However, there are certain spacial arrangements and visual clues on the road which offer the impression of the right of way, or of the need to yield. Combined with short sight lines and the lack of visual clues to make car drivers consider doing less than 10 miles over the speed limit on Baldwin, make this a dangerous intersection. 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