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cycling74

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Bicycle Boulevard Progress

Here are some photos of the bike blvd on the stretch of Rio Grande between MLK and 24th St. In the first photo, we are looking south. This is a two lane one way northbound street for cars, two way for bikes with a buffer separating bike and car traffic. Photos taken at 23rd & Rio Grande.

MichaelBluejay

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Re: Bicycle Boulevard Progress

Well, this is controversial, and it's also not really a bicycle boulevard, unless they're restricting through traffic by motor vehicles on this road, which I don't think they're doing.

savanni

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Re: Bicycle Boulevard Progress

I can't tell, but are they putting in barriers to keep cars from parking in the bike lanes?

bizikletari

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I can't tell, but are they putting in barriers to keep cars from parking in the bike lanes?

I see an impregnable double white line.

savanni

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I can't tell, but are they putting in barriers to keep cars from parking in the bike lanes?

I see an impregnable double white line.

Well, I asked because the email that Nadia Barrera sent out yesterday show drawings that included flexible standing barriers (the kind of thing that won't much damage your car, but will look hazardous to sober drivers).  I'm not seeing any indications of that in the photos.

cycling74

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Re: Bicycle Boulevard Progress

Just an update on the Rio Grande Bicycle Boulevard that runs from MLK to 24th St. I use it daily, as do many cyclists, and we don't see this every day but I thought I'd post it anyway. Usually the only issues we have are trucks and deliveries parked in the lane but every once in awhile a driver will mistake the boulevard for a southbound car lane.

in this case the driver drove down the block to drop his friend off here, then pulls around us waiting cyclists to turn west on MLK. Probably a mistake but still something to watch out for.

Jack

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Re: Bicycle Boulevard Progress

Do you have a sense that this sort of thing happens more frequently than drivers turning down the wrong way on a regular one-way street?

cycling74

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Re: Bicycle Boulevard Progress

No, I see wrong way one way all the time, drivers not seeing stop signs and blowing through them, wrong way down alleys (again not seeing any stop sign because they're going the wrong way). West Campus. Be careful if you walk or ride here.