On 8/12/2013 10:00 AM, Robbie Webber wrote:
Although there probably are no longer records of it, those who biked down Seminole Hwy in the late-1980s and early-1990s probably remember a similar cut-out where the RR tracks - now the Badger Trail (!) - crossed at an odd angle. Before I started biking regularly out that way I also remember a lot of people talking about falling on the tracks before that cut was put in place.Is there any regular bike commuter out there that has NOT fallen the RR tracks somewhere in the city or metro area? Not just getting your wheel caught, but also slipping on the tracks or not quite crossing correctly seem to get a lot of people. Mine was falling on Campus Dr (W. Johnson St) in front of Engineering in the rain. I was continuing east down the road because of construction where I normally cut though the Engineering campus. Thought I had made it across the tracks, but my back wheel was still on the tracks and I went down.
My wife went down and hurt herself badly back in the 90s when the rails still crossed Seminole Hwy south of Lacy Road in Fitchburg.
There are similar pavement extensions to allow bicyclist to cross tracks at right angles at the rail crossing of Fish Hatchery Road just north of Badger Road, but the angle of the tracks is not as daunting.
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