When I am in a car I notice that many Madison bike paths are somewhat obscured from view, look identical to sidewalks, or just go under the radar of most drivers.
As a cyclist, I've noticed a lack of signage and street markings on streets that intersect the bike paths all around Madison. Even if there is already a stop sign or yield sign aimed at cyclists on the path, there should also be VERY VISIBLE signage that alerts both directions of auto traffic that they are approaching a bike path crossing- that cyclists may be present, crossing, and/or turning onto the street to merge with traffic. I also think that there should be robust marked crosswalks at each path/road intersection, since as far as I can tell all of the city "bike" paths are actually mixed-use and therefore the crossings are ped crossings as well. This goes for intersections that occur on property that falls under UW jurisdiction as well, but I'm not certain who to CC from UW about this. I think this could be one component of an effort to convince folks that sharing the road necessitates being aware of who else is on the road. -india ----- Original Message ----- From: Karl K <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 2, 2009 12:33 pm Subject: [Bikies] Something needs to change at this intersection! To: [email protected] > Last time, it was a fatal accident! This one involves children. The > Dempsey/Cottage Grove Road intersection is on the Lake Monona bike loop. > > http://www.cityofmadison.com/incidentReports/incidentDetail.cfm?id=10428 > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
