[MissoulaGov] Committee Update 12-2-09

[Jim Sayer]

I was a little surprised to see this too -- I have never seen this anywhere else -- what's the inspiration?

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, John Fletcher <fletcher at montana.com> wrote:

From: John Fletcher <fletcher at montana.com>
Subject: Re: [MissoulaGov] Committee Update 12-2-09
To: missoulagov at cmslists.com
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 8:47 AM


 
At 10:40 PM 12/2/2009, you wrote:

...The bike lane will be
at sidewalk level and will be paved with
asphalt.

Won't this conflate pedestrian traffic (on the sidewalk) with bicycle
traffic (on the adjacent bike lane), thereby increasing the
already-hazardous incidence of bicycles being ridden on downtown
sidewalks where there are no setbacks from building entrances?

The advantage of separating these two types of traffic by a curb is that
a bicyclist at street level dismounts, lifts the bike over a curb, and
walks the bike to a sidewalk parking rack (or--at a street-level bike
rack such as outside Taco del Sol in the 400 block of N.
Higgins--dismounts, parks the bike, then steps over the curb to join
pedestrians on the sidewalk).  The curb acts as more than just a
physical barrier, for it marks a psychological boundary between two
patterns of motive behavior. 

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