General Road and Highway Discussion

[the_conestoga_guy]

I wonder if this means any improvements to Benton/Frederick, Victoria & King, and I'm sure some other projects are dead? Are the Lancaster changes removing lanes? Does this meaning turning lanes can't be removed?

Nonsense. Worse when you consider that many road diets or turning lane reconfigurations should happen regardless of bike lanes, but now you can't toss them in to save money on constructing them together (if at all).

Fortunately, there is an easy solution: just close the car lanes. Don’t re-stripe them as bike lanes or anything. Of course, if some bicyclists still use the space once the cars are out of them, nobody can really blame them.

They'd sure be blamed for getting run over by a right hook, or any other situation where they should have had right of way.

For Victoria and King, I wonder where this new “law” differentiates between “lanes lost for bikes” and “lanes lost for bus-only lanes”. If the latter is acceptable, then I think it would still be allowed. 

I don’t believe Lancaster is proposed to be closing any car lanes. 

The Frederick/Benton project, though, is such a classic case of a road being overbuilt and where losing a lane or two wouldn’t change anything for drivers and their commute times. 

Going back to the “bus lanes being allowed” thing, I’m sure if cyclists just happened to use the bus lanes, then we could still make some progress as a city until a new government gets elected (whenever that might be).