This was discussed extensively during the oddly named SCTOD (South Capitol Transit-Oriented Development) set of meetings. I can't remember exactly what came out of the North Shore one, but I know the Broom St. crossing, while somewhat weird, requiring a diagonal crossing against traffic at West Wilson, crossing Nolen in one light. The final recommendations might be online.
This has been discussed by bikies types ever since they reconfigured the Broom intersection however many years ago that was. As usual, bicyclists get the shaft while we "green light" (literally) the cars racing to and from the suburbs. The worst problem of the whole lot is keeping that exit next to Machinery Row open. There was discussion about closing that exit and having that exit/entrance instead be a sort of extended Hancock St. south of Nolen. This makes sense. I suspect nothing will really move too much on this until some bicyclist gets killed by a cellphone-babbling or texting motorist who ignores the sign to look both ways (instead of just left) at the bike path. On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 5:14 PM, cloudydays33 <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Esteemed Bikies, > > Can anyone share the background of why pedestrians and bicyclists have to > wait through two traffic-light cycles when crossing John Nolen Drive at N > Shore Drive and Williamson Street? (One to cross the right turn lanes, and > then another to cross the street itself.) > > Is there a way that peds/bikes could be better accommodated at these > crossings? I imagine this has been discussed here before and I apologize if > I am re-hashing an old conversation. > > Any ideas how this might be improved? > > Yours in community, > Brian Lavendel > _______________________________________________ > 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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