heinzrx
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The title says it all... (sorry for the long lead-in)
BACKGROUND...
Our neighborhood is having a debate about a "road diet". There is a four lane thoroughfare that passes through our neighborhood and the neighborhood association is proposing knocking it down to two lanes and adding bicycle lanes on either side. This thoroughfare is very busy (16 thousand cars a day average) mostly because it feeds directly into downtown Fort Worth and has heavy commuter traffic.
The essential argument of the pro-road-diet group is that it's for safety reasons, slowing traffic and making it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. A meeting was held and included the local city council rep. and a couple of city traffic engineers. We spoke with one of the traffic engineers and she said in the recent three year period there have been a total of 18 documented traffic accidents on this stretch of road. My wife and I feel that this figure does not support the expense of reconfiguring a busy thoroughfare and that the changes will just add to backups of traffic.
I posted my concerns on the Fort Worth Forum and started a debate of the road diet issue. It got somewhat sidetracked into a vehicles vs bicyclist issue and then when I asked why motorcycles can't use bike lanes (but bicycles can use car lanes) things started to go downhill.
So I decided to start a separate thread on why motorcycles/scooters can't use bike lanes.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4979
Feel free to comment here or add to the discussion on the Fort Worth Forum.
Heinz
BACKGROUND...
Our neighborhood is having a debate about a "road diet". There is a four lane thoroughfare that passes through our neighborhood and the neighborhood association is proposing knocking it down to two lanes and adding bicycle lanes on either side. This thoroughfare is very busy (16 thousand cars a day average) mostly because it feeds directly into downtown Fort Worth and has heavy commuter traffic.
The essential argument of the pro-road-diet group is that it's for safety reasons, slowing traffic and making it safer for bicyclists and pedestrians. A meeting was held and included the local city council rep. and a couple of city traffic engineers. We spoke with one of the traffic engineers and she said in the recent three year period there have been a total of 18 documented traffic accidents on this stretch of road. My wife and I feel that this figure does not support the expense of reconfiguring a busy thoroughfare and that the changes will just add to backups of traffic.
I posted my concerns on the Fort Worth Forum and started a debate of the road diet issue. It got somewhat sidetracked into a vehicles vs bicyclist issue and then when I asked why motorcycles can't use bike lanes (but bicycles can use car lanes) things started to go downhill.
So I decided to start a separate thread on why motorcycles/scooters can't use bike lanes.
http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4979
Feel free to comment here or add to the discussion on the Fort Worth Forum.
Heinz