[MissoulaGov] Committee Update 12-2-09

[David V. Gray]

Bob,

 

How will the bike lanes be maintained, cleaned & snow removal completed if
the bike lanes are at sidewalk level instead of the street?  Has this been
brought to the attention of the maintenance department for input?

 

Sincerely,

David V. Gray

 

From: missoulagov-bounces at cmslists.com
[mailto:missoulagov-bounces at cmslists.com] On Behalf Of Jim Sayer
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:45 AM
To: missoulagov at cmslists.com; John Fletcher
Subject: Re: [MissoulaGov] Committee Update 12-2-09

 


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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