HomeMy WebLinkAbout6/19/2018 Item 10, Schmidt
From:Richard Schmidt <
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Agenda Item #10, Laurel Lane
Dear Council Members,
With regard to bicycle accommodations, I urge you to go with traditional bike lanes (type II) rather than the
recommendation of the ATC.
As those of us in the community have found in other recent actions by them, the ATC's recommendation is once again
radical, ill-thought-out, and promulgated without careful analysis. The cycle tracks to the curbside of parking will be
dangerous for cyclists, as many driveways cross them, and each will be an unsignalized, undesignated, blind intersection
(the latter due to parked cars between bikes and moving vehicles) bringing motor vehicles and bikes into inevitable and
probably frequent conflict. Since bikers may assume they are "safe" in these tracks, riders are unlikely to be exercising the
constant caution they would in normal bike lanes. Plus, in normal bike lanes they can SEE vehicle movements, not have
them blocked by parked cars.
Also, having vehicle occupants exiting their cars INTO and ACROSS a cycle track is just plain dangerous for pedestrians
and weird. You must not do something that is likely to make pedestrian life on Laurel Lane even more injuriously and
fatally dangerous than it already is, for so-doing would contravene the basic premise of Complete Streets -- safety for
everyone!
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt
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