08-20-2022, 04:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-20-2022, 04:35 PM by danbrotherston.)
Hmm..
It's hard to tell exactly what's going on here because the perspective is hard to read.
The curb cut that starts directly where the paved portion of the sidewalk ends (closest to the camera) that is right where the jog in the curb is...is for bike lanes transitioning to the MUTs that surround the circle.
See an example here: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4294683,...384!8i8192
FWIW...I should give our engineers a little credit, they appear to have improved their design for the bike transition to the roundabout. It is now less oblique to the bike lane and (while it's hard to tell in the photo for sure) the curb looks flatter. The old design was dangerous because attempting to move up a lip...even a small one sideways on a bike is a recipe for a crash.
It looks like there is another curb cut immediately after that section, although its hard to see in the photo for sure. It seems too far from the circle to be the pedestrian crossing...and looking at the first photos, it looks like the crossing is not aligned, but again, it's hard to see in the perspective. But at the same time, I don't see another curb cut closer to the circle, so it seems like it would have to be the ped crossing.
You might know better having been there.
It's hard to tell exactly what's going on here because the perspective is hard to read.
The curb cut that starts directly where the paved portion of the sidewalk ends (closest to the camera) that is right where the jog in the curb is...is for bike lanes transitioning to the MUTs that surround the circle.
See an example here: https://www.google.com/maps/@43.4294683,...384!8i8192
FWIW...I should give our engineers a little credit, they appear to have improved their design for the bike transition to the roundabout. It is now less oblique to the bike lane and (while it's hard to tell in the photo for sure) the curb looks flatter. The old design was dangerous because attempting to move up a lip...even a small one sideways on a bike is a recipe for a crash.
It looks like there is another curb cut immediately after that section, although its hard to see in the photo for sure. It seems too far from the circle to be the pedestrian crossing...and looking at the first photos, it looks like the crossing is not aligned, but again, it's hard to see in the perspective. But at the same time, I don't see another curb cut closer to the circle, so it seems like it would have to be the ped crossing.
You might know better having been there.