10-26-2021, 08:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-26-2021, 08:36 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-26-2021, 08:03 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: The barriers appear to be in for all of Water street now (only checked the south end, but I think the north end was done a while ago).
As for Joseph, I'm really disappointed with the pedestrian crossing at Gaukel. I'm hoping something changes here, but I think the current setup is final aside from some paint? You're lucky if a car even slows down now, and there is a really bad blind corner right at the crossing... More people are going to get hit here.
Water St. is getting an island. I'm not really sure why they didn't put it in when it was originally built, but either way, I can see the outline on the ground now.
I don't find the Gaukel crossing all that bad. Frankly, plenty of drivers didn't slow down for the stop sign either. I find more actually slow down because it is a blind corner than would slow down for any other type of crossing. The blind corner is a problem and I hope they move the drop curb to be in line with the Gaukel Roadway, but obviously that's new work, given that the bike lanes didn't involve moving that curb.
We'll see how it goes. Right now I'm seeing an awful lot of cars drive in the bike lanes. Some of them are doing so very deliberately.