18th Street protected bike lane construction started + video of Jackson

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Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on December 12, 2011 at 1:21pm

+1 Howard.  

Personally, and not being at either of the ends of the 8-80 spectrum, the most-needed infrastructure is at the bridges and under/over-passes of the expressways where the road width  is usually pinched down but inexplicably there are EXTRA lanes and almost zero safe area to bike across.  Such areas are in a gross need for road diets.   This is made even worse by the fact that because of the geographical limitations of the river and expressways these are the ONLY places to cross these landmarks.   There are no other routes to avoid these dangerous spots and still get to the other side of them.

Nearly every bridge and over/underpass in the city should be subject to a road diet to contain no more than the number of lanes than that which the road generally has in that area, and the rest of the space over the bridge devoted to a protected bike lane.  

While 8-80 long-route protected bike lanes are a very worthy long-term goal -fixing the pinch-points which present the greatest danger and barriers to most riders should be just as high of a priority -as should maintenance of the existing line-markings of bike lanes and sharrows already built. 

h' said:

As long as we get the protected lane over the bridge, the only place I feel unsafe on 18th between the lakefront and Western, I'll be happy.

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