I had mentioned in an earlier post that I thing the sign on the bike lane/Johnson St divider that is just west of the intersection may block drivers' view of oncoming bikes. Well, I drove through there this morning and it's actually TWO signs, one on top of each other. One is an obscure warning of an upcoming lane change (I think), the other ironically enough is a "wrong way" sign to keep bikers from going west in the bike lane.
My points being: 1) Those signs don't seem real vital, and certainly not worth the hazard they're causing, and 2) If they must be there, couldn't the signage at least be 6' or higher so as not to block the drivers' sight line? Would one of our governmental insiders be willing to look into this? ------------ Patrick Lenon > Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 10:36:45 -0500 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Bikies] Randall and University - bike-MV crash? > > 2 things in this article are not clear: > > * "with University traffic having a green light at Randall." > This presumably refers to Westbound traffic. Did Eastbound also have a > green? or did the cylist go through a red light? > In any case, the cyclist apparently did not have a headlight, which > might have prevented this crash. Its pretty dark now at 7pm. > > * "University Avenue is one-way westbound in that stretch, but there's > a two-way bike lane on the south edge of the street." > This is just stupid. The Eastbound bike lane is not 2-way. > > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:00 AM, rick <[email protected]> wrote: > > Link to Cap times coverage > > > > On 11/4/2010 8:27 PM, rick wrote: > > > > 6:00 news mentioned the "crash" a rough paraphrase " a bike ran into a car > > .... cyclist was taken to a local hospital with non-life threatening > > injuries....no tickets have been issued" > > > > On 11/4/2010 8:08 PM, Paul T. O'Leary wrote: > > > > From: Mitchell Nussbaum <[email protected]> > > > > I looked in the police record and didn't see anything, but that doesn't mean > > there isn't a > > report. Mitch saw an accident once and couldn't find anything about it, so I > > emailed the > > police department and got a response, with information, from Joel DeSpain, > > their PR > > person. The police only make public a small percentage of their reports. - > > Genie Ogden > > > > Actually, _all_ traffic crash reports (alas, the city follows suit to the > > state and still > > calls them "accident" reports), except those redacted, eventually make it to > > the city's > > web site. See http://www.cityofmadison.com/police/accidents . But you need > > to know a name > > of a party to the crash, or an insurance company, or a case number. This was > > done to > > prevent "ambulance chasers" from simply searching by date, and spamming > > everyone involved > > in a crash on a particular day. In addition, it can take up to a week or so > > for the > > reports to end up on this site. > > --------------------- > > Paul T. O'Leary > > Desktop Insurgent > > Madison WI USA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Bikies mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org > > > > > > > > -- > .......... > -darin > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
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