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I ride this route often and feel that a bike route from Clinton Avenue, across Lombard and Humphrey to Orange, continues to be sorely needed.
I feel that this issue should remain open until a route that all persons -- age 8 to 80 -- feel comfortable riding their bikes on. Although sharrows are a minor improvement over nothing, adding sharrows to the road simply does not do that.
65 people previously voted on this issue: "Bike lane needed from Clinton Avenue to Orange Street," but that issue is being closed because sharrows have been installed. http://www.seeclickfix.com/issues/8658-bike-lane-needed-from-clinton-avenue-to-orange-street
Sharrows are ineffective at increasing cycling rates unless speeds are reduced to 20MPH.
Portland, OR, and New York City, NY, are currently doing this along hundreds of miles of their residential streets.
Studies show that very few people will feel comfortable bicycling on roads unless speeds are strictly capped at 20MPH -- no matter what kind of paint you have on the road.
Achieving these average speeds along bike routes can be done through various traffic calming and traffic engineering methods. Berkeley has pioneered this decades ago this with its "bicycle boulevards," and many cities have since followed.
It is best to call them "slow streets", since they have a tremendous benefit for pedestrians and property owners as well.
The sharrows here should be replaced with street engineering that meets the standards of the NACTO -- whether bike lanes, buffered bike lanes, traffic calmed boulevards, or some other feature: http://nacto.org/cities-for-cycling/design-guide/ .
7 Comentars
Carlos R. Galo (Usuario registrado)
Department of Transportation, Traffic and Parking (Usuario registrado)
Are you familiar with the Complete Streets Manual and Project Request form? Issues like the one posted are reasons why the manual was created. You can view the manual here: http://www.cityofnewhaven.com/Engineering/completestreets.asp
It sounds like you've done a lot of research to strengthen your argument for expansion of the existing bicycle infrastructure in New Haven. This fits well with the goals of the Complete Streets Manual.
The purpose of the manual is to provide a framework in which citizens/community members/local organizations can work with municipal government to incorporate design changes within the existing transportation network in order to reflect the multi-modal needs of a city through improvements on overall safety and sustainability.
Thanks for posting this issue.
Rob Smuts (Usuario registrado)
City of New Haven (Oficial verificado)
Complete Streets Statistics? (Invitado)
Complete streets/time investment: City of New Haven: Please post the percentage of Complete Streets applications filed, the percent approved, and the length of time between filing and action by the City (sidewalks, etc).
Complete streets is very time consuming, and seems to have little results. A way to make residents feel they are 'being heard' and the City to delay action.
Raisya (Usuario registrado)
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Cerrado Manager of Operations, Process Improvement - Transportation, Traffic, & Parking (Oficial verificado)