Bike path

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I've gotten off my butt and started biking again and I've been taking the bike path that parallels Highland westbound into Davis. Once I hit Davis, there's the sign about the bike path picking up again on the other side of Davis. Where exactly does it do this, considering there are something like 23 billion streets leading out of Davis.

And I am grateful to those of you who have politely stifled chuckles as a large man with a shaved head and no shirt goes whizzing sputtering past.....

Comments

[ron_newman]

Seven Hills Park is fine for bicycling, but the JP Licks plaza is not.

Going eastbound, it's usually fairly easy to turn left from Holland Street into the busway. Just wait for a break in cross-traffic and scoot over.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

It may be "fine" in the sense of "you won't run into too many people" but if you look you will see "no bikes" symbols painted onto the bricks at both ends of Seven Hills. (And I'd rather dodge gridlocked cars on Holland than unobstructed buses on the busway, but that's just my preference.)

[julishka.livejournal.com]

no, it's not fine. the brick path through the park is not a bike path in the official sense of the word. that is the beginning of the business district and is considered a sidewalk.

it doesn't bother me, but as far as officially, the bike path does not run through seven hills park.

[ron_newman]

I've always consdidered it to be part of the bike path, since it has all those bike racks on either side near the T station.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

the signs at the end of the brick path indicate the direction of the bike path. they have just recently put the new bike path signage up (w/in the last two months) indicating the path direction out on to the street. there also used to be a sign clearly stating that one was entering a business district (which means no bike riding on the sidewalks) and that the path continues on the other side of the square. that sign got vandalized and knocked down at some point.

[turil.livejournal.com]

I'm wondering if there is some discrepancy in the different official departments about what exactly, that area is. As a member of the city's bicycle committee, I can couch for the fact that we believe that Sevin Hills Park is officially a part of the path. DPW, on the other hand, might not.

So, it could be officially open to cyclists while also officially not being open to cyclists.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, with the typos! Sorry.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

looks like you've got a new agenda item for the next committee meeting then! hehe.

[turil.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I meant to make that past tense. I'm not on the committee anymore. How about you Ron?

[ron_newman]

I'm still on the committee, and I think of Seven Hills Park as part of the path.