Also, if I remember correctly, the city couldn't stop all the bikes from using it, even tho it was frustrating as a bicyclist to wait behind buses while loading and breath all those diesel fumes when the buses accelerate and have to watch out for cops and tickets. The counter flow was so needed as a transportation option for bikes that bicyclists used it regardless. On Oct 4, 2014 8:46 PM, "Mitchell Nussbaum" <[email protected]> wrote:
> An interesting story. The bike lane is semi unintentional. When I first > came to Madison, in 1966, U Ave was two way, but the next year it was made > one-way Westbound with a contraflow BUS lane. Bikes were supposed to stay > out of the lane;they got ticketed until a lawyer found that the city didn't > have the power to do this. > > The bus lane became very unpopular when a student stepped in front of a > bus and lost her leg. But it remained in place until the city proposed to > widen the street to include a two way bike lane on the north side of the > street. This was blocked when people realized the widened street would take > almost all the open space in the corridor, going almost up to the edge of > Humanities and Barnard Hall. So the city went back to the drawing board and > came up with a plan to accommodate bikes in the existing footprint, with a > westbound bike lane on the north and a narrowed contraflow eastbound bike > lane in place of the bus lane. And that's how we arrived where we are now. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 11:09:48 -0700 (PDT) > Subject: [Bikies] History of the counter flow lane on University Avenue > > I received an inquiry from a youngish person who is now in Milwaukee about > how the counterflow lane and westbound lane on University came to be. She > is planning to advocate for protected bicycle lanes in Milwaukee. Anyone > have background on that story? > > Al Matano > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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