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

[turil.livejournal.com]

Legally vehicles other than T owned ones aren't allowed to use the T road. We went through the plan to connect the paths years ago when I was on the Bicycle Committee, and we never had any luck. Legally, cyclists have to turn left onto the public road and proceed the normal way through the Davis non-square intersection, and then turn left onto the side-street by the crepe place. Technically you can't even go onto the sidewalk and under the T headhouse, as that's against T-policy as well.