The yield sign seems totally pointless. Since stop signs trump yield signs, bikes on the bike path would seem to have the right of way over cars exiting Machinery Row, but presumably cars turning in front of traffic from eastbound Williamson/Wilson or southbound Blair have the right of way over everyone else. You're right, there is no yield sign for eastbound bicyclists. There is some contention about that yield sign within the Traffic Engineering Division, with some advocating its removal. It isn't clear why cars turning into the Machinery Row complex should have priority over anyone.
What this discussion points out once again is that the car road adjacent to the Machinery Row building needs to be closed, with access to that area, as proposed during the SCTOD discussions at an extension of Hancock St. Having almost been run over by a cellphone yakking idiot looking left (but not right, the direction from which I was coming) and seen another person almost run over as well, this intersection is a crash waiting to happen. The yield sign NEEDS to be removed, as it would make a bike hit by a car coming out of nowhere going into the Machinery Row exit at fault, which is simply absurd. On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 7:02 PM, Harald Kliems <[email protected]> wrote: > Always a fun topic... Today somebodyon Reddit posted about a yield sign > for cyclists at the intersection of the Machinery Row parking lot exit and > the Cap City Trail. > > > https://www.reddit.com/r/madisonwi/comments/3igzpy/cyclists_near_machinery_row_that_yield_sign_is/ > > A lot of people point out that they have never ever noticed that yield > sign, and it appears (someone posted a link to Google Street View) that > there is only one sign, for cyclists coming from Willy St. The parking lot > exit has a stop sign, and there are no signs whatsoever on the trail for > cyclists coming from Monona Terrace. I will readily admit that I have never > noticed that yield sign either and have often been annoyed at drivers > cutting me off when exiting the parking lot. Maybe it has been discussed > here previously, but this seems like a horribly confusing and ambiguous > intersection design that makes it nigh impossible to tell who has the right > of way. Can anyone confirm that there is indeed only one yield sign? And > any theories why it was put there/why there isn't one in the other > direction? > > Harald. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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