When will the Trail Separation project be completed?

So my girlfriend just informed me that she was in a bike-on-bike accident on the Lakefront Trail at Belmont. It's an area where separation has occurred and lines have been painted. But the old lines still exist and there is no transition from old to new lines, nor direction for pedestrians and bikers on which lanes to choose.

This area has bugged the crap out of me for a long while now. A couple of weeks ago, I honestly seriously considered creating my own stencils and bringing some paint out there and doing it myself.

So, anybody know when it's going to be finished? Or is this going to need to be a DIY project?

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Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on July 10, 2019 at 9:40am

I was on legit side of bike trail. Guy cyclist was riding too fast also. He went on my lane and almost crashed on to me. I was here: https://goo.gl/maps/VVuLUA32RbCfTtdV6

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on July 11, 2019 at 3:00am

got it, you were almost clumsy on the legit side.

Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on July 11, 2019 at 3:18am

How so? I was riding at low speed, not intending to pass anyone. 

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on July 10, 2019 at 8:01am

Bob, for what it's worth, my compassion is fairly healthy. And at risk of putting too fine a point on it, I didn't call the cyclist "clumsy", I suggested that it was a clumsy attempt at passing if these barrels (off the path) were in play. I would feel the same way if I were the crasher. You make it sound like I was taunting them as they were being carted off!

Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on July 10, 2019 at 8:16am

Clumsy it is.

Like a "car" road. If you can pass safely, do it. If you can't due to oncoming traffic, then the passer is an asshole. See it so often now, the people who think they can pass safely, but instead, it's all about ego. 

Permalink Reply by Mark on July 10, 2019 at 8:53am

The temporary south access to the Flyover has has gotten very congested in the afternoon.  I was patiently waiting my turn behind runners and cyclists to enter yesterday, when another runner edges past me on the left in the space that I left in case someone was approaching on the other side of that blind intersection.  The space was so narrow he couldn't pass me without making contact.  A real dick move!

Permalink Reply by Ernesto Lube on July 10, 2019 at 9:05am

I have a bell. I just yell. 

Permalink Reply by David P. on July 11, 2019 at 2:46am

Cyclists on places like the LFP seem much more unaware, as a group, than drivers that it is incumbent on the person making a pass to do so safely, and to *not* do so until they can do so safely. 

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on July 11, 2019 at 3:47am

FYI, the barrels are gone now. Next someone will ride into a tree and we'll clamor to get them back. The perfect compromise: wrap the trees like goalposts.

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on July 11, 2019 at 3:43am

i think there's been a misunderstanding here. mark said "attempted to pass", but really the rider was attempting to avoid rear-ending the rider in front of him, who was slowing down, because of that jogger in the cycle section.

i reacted to someone who crashed while trying to avoid a crash being called clumsy.

Permalink Reply by Mark on July 11, 2019 at 4:03am

I was not trying to compare the situations.  It was a jogger that passed me on the left making contact with me on a blind turn.  It was a dangerous move that should never have happened, but the jogger was too impatient to slow down with the rest of the trail traffic.  Fortunately, there was no oncoming traffic.

Permalink Reply by bobweiser on July 11, 2019 at 4:16am

another misunderstanding, i meant DerferMark

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