04-23-2018, 07:12 PM
(04-22-2018, 07:52 PM)plam Wrote:(10-29-2017, 09:51 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: Final pavement is in, as well as all curbs, the most that will change here is some paint. Does anyone have any idea what's intended?
This simply boggles my mind. Westbound cyclists are dumped out on the wrong side of the road facing oncoming traffic. And turning traffic is likely to turn into their path. Why end the trail 20 meters short of the intersection.
Honestly, anyone has any idea.
So I don't know what seems to have happened but I was just there at Lexington and Davenport again and it somehow didn't seem to be like that. Instead the multi-use trail seems to go to the corner? It was weird and bad a month ago. Now I just can't remember exactly what I saw an hour ago.
I rode through there on friday. It does indeed just end at the north-west side of the intersection with the ever-so-helpful "cyclists dismount and walk" sign. It's friggin' ridiculous. I usually just ride on the road if I'm heading eastbound toward rim park. The green path part needs a streetsweep but so do many roads in town. It's comicallly terrible; ISTM the design criteria was to make something that didn't disturb the car lanes too much. The road diet that was proposed a while back was a better idea, there are huge wide boulevards on the rest of the road so a plain old MUP on both sides would have been preferable to me. If the goal is to get cyclists to the mall a MUP following the highway/powerlines all the way to the offramp seems like a pretty easy way to go, there is a little path/park that goes into the subdivision too, but it's closed according to a small sign I noticed on friday.