06-05-2017, 09:37 AM
(06-05-2017, 09:23 AM)ijmorlan Wrote:(06-05-2017, 09:10 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: While this is perhaps a reasonable idea, medians (I believe refuge islands included) necessitate extremely wide lanes (4.8 meters), which would be worse than no median IMO.
I think narrow lanes, cobbles, whatever it takes to show this is a shared space should be the minimum. There'd even be room for the, by some miracle, controversial sidewalk then.
?? Why does a median require wider lanes? If the lane is wide enough, it’s wide enough, whether or not it is next to the other-direction lane. I might see it on an arterial, where large trucks need to be able to go and maybe you even want to allow for vehicles to slowly pass a stopped vehicle, but through the park I would go with the narrowest workable lanes (2.5m? I don’t know — how wide is a truck, anyway?), separated by a 2m median. Or some such. Not sure exactly.
It's city policy. Ostensibly, it is to allow plowing operations, because plows need more space to operate. But you can go argue with city policy makers if you like.