Lobbying for the bike lane where it still is was one of the biggest achievements of the Madison Bicycle Brigade. I can't remember how many, but it was at least 50 people showed up at the city council meeting to lobby for it. I remember the night, because I had a 6 p.m. softball game at a grade school on Nakoma Road and remember roaring down that hill to get to the meeting by 7:30.
The problem on University Avenue was that when buses pulled in to stop, there were constant conflicts with bicycles that were staying to the right. The thought was to keep the buses to the right of the bikes and let the bikes have their own lane to the left of the bus lane. It seems to have stood the test of time. This must have been around 1980. On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Steve Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 10/4/14, 8:46 PM, Mitchell Nussbaum wrote: > >> 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 >> > The westbound bike lane was controversial. Many thought a bike lane > sandwiched by buses and cars would be dangerous. I think there was a > "die-in" protest when it was opened. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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