when i used the new sherman ave. bike lane, there were bobcats driving up and down it in both directions. their purpose there was to help with the sidewalk reconstruction, but they still should not have been riding in the bike lane toward traffic rather than with it.
On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Steve Arnold <[email protected]>wrote: > I took a rare trip to the airport today, and thought I'd detour home down > Sherman Ave to see the new configuration. It looks great! (Remember, I'm > driving, not biking. I hope it's working well, too.) Kudos to Madison TE > for the new design! > > However, there were a couple of UPS trucks parked in the southbound bike > lane several times (I watched them deliver a few packages), forcing > motorists to pass them in the TWLTL, and of course, forcing bicyclists into > the motor vehicle lane. I tried a couple of ways to report this to Madison > Police, but in the end, driving safely took priority. > > Does anyone know if this behavior is tolerated by police? The bike lane > is clearly marked with no parking signs. I believe Police management needs > to call the UPS station chief and get a firm policy established at the > company. I am sorry the productivity of UPS drivers will suffer if they > must turn into driveways, and more importantly, wait for traffic to back > into traffic when a delivery is complete, but the rest of us do it, and > this behavior compromises the safety of all for UPS profit. > -- > Steve Arnold, Fitchburg Alder, District 4, Seat 7 > 2530 Targhee Street, Fitchburg, Wisconsin 53711-5491 > Telephone +1 608 278 7700 · Facsimile +1 608 278 7701 > [email protected] · http://Arnold.US > Become a supporter: like > http://facebook.com/**ArnoldforAlder<http://facebook.com/ArnoldforAlder> > . > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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