My favorite valve cover is on the Mifflin Bike Boulevard heading toward downtown just before Blair St. If you ride over the sharrow you get directed right into a nice water valve cover that gives you a good rattling. You think when they were placing the sharrows on the road they would not put them so they directed you right into obstacles. Also the cover is not painted. -Michael
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Mark Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > I reckon this is a question for Arthur Ross or a road engineer. > Due to my new job, I now bike commute west on o ike lanes (Old Middleton > and Old Sauk between Eau Claire and Excelsior Dr.) > Actually, it's quite nice with some very WIDE lanes at places (you could > drive a car through them!) > But what is most noticeable is the high numbers of water valve covers and > manhole covers in the bike lanes. > The biggest issue for me is that they ARE NOT marked and can be difficult > to see in the dappled shadows during the day > and the dimming light of morning or evening. Hitting them (especially on > the thrilling downhill plunge to Old Middleton at Owen Conservation park > and Crestwood school) can be quite jarring. > > One or two of the hundred or so are marked with yellow paint. > > Couldn't the city mark all of the valve/Manhole covers in bike lanes with > yellow paint? > If a vehicle were to hit an hole in the road and get jarred like this, I'm > guessing road crews would be out in a New York minute to > alert drivers of this (as in the 'Bump' signs you see on the highway.) > > thanks for listening > Mark Evans > ______________________________**_________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/**listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.**org<http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org> >
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