11-04-2016, 06:38 PM
(11-04-2016, 06:28 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Nice to be able to see the bike lanes on the pavement along Margaret again (they had faded considerably). I only saw them while on the #8 so hard to know if some of the oddities have been corrected yet. The driving lanes on Margaret seem narrower though; so much so that the #8 was straddling the bike lane by a good margin.
That was the "shave and pave" that was planned, should also lead to a smoother ride. I know they had planned to correct some oddities around the pedestrian island, but it didn't look like they'd rebuild either the curb or the island so I have no idea if that happened or not.
The narrowness of the lanes is a problem on some streets, buses on Highland do the same thing, but it *should* slow traffic down. Of course, traffic rides on the line enough it disappears and then we go back to 4.5 meter wide lanes.