Bike path reroute

[ceo]

I'm glad that they're rerouting the bike path around the Rite Aid parking lot. But the way they're doing it is kind of surprising:


This is a whole bunch of accidents waiting, not for very long, to happen. It's really tricky to navigate on a bike even at low speed with no other traffic.

And it doesn't need to be that way; they could have taken down those bollards and curved it through where the wood chips are. Possibly smoothing out the other transition would require sacrificing the nearmost parking space.

Comments

[smammy]

I'm pretty sure that once they finish paving, it'll be a smooth shot from the main bike path to the Rite Aid parking lot. Also, the blacktop that routes around the parking lot is not the final surface. See how the manholes and communication boxes are raised?

[ceo]

Yes, they're going to lay down a final layer, but that's the footprint.

[smammy]

Then we're in agreement! What's the problem again? Bikes will ride through the parking lot and peds will walk on the sidewalk.