See also Dave Schlabowske's (the city of Milwaukee's Bicycle and Pedestrian coordinator) commentary re the East Wilson "bike boulevard."
http://overthebarsinmilwaukee.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/review-wisconsins-firs t-bicycle-boulevard/ Previously posted on this list by Kathryn Kinsgbury, but worth posting again. Dave and I worked together when we both worked for the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin (though in different offices) and he is as knowledgeable about cyclists' needs and bicycle transportation infrastructure as nearly anyone I know. Chuck Strawser Pedestrian & Bike Coordinator Commuter Solutions Transportation Services UW-Madison Room 124 WARF 610 Walnut St Madison WI 53726 608-263-2969 www.wisc.edu/trans ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of tim wong Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:39 PM To: David Waugh Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Bikies] mifflin bike blvd ditto, of course, for the so-called bike boulevard on the 1100 to 1300 blocks of East Wilson, where the bike path shares the road with cars. It's not like city staff don't know how to do bike boulevards; I don't know what's holding them up. But if the mayor thinks he's going to get brownie points with the people who award platinum honors by calling these non-bike blvds bike boulevards, I think he's quite mistaken. tim On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM, David Waugh <[email protected]> wrote: East Mifflin is a bike blvd in name only, and I think that is a shame. I am pretty upset that it is called a bike blvd without putting in the necessary features, such as diverters and stop signs for cross traffic. With the current configuration, it is only a bike route. With businesses dropping like flies on E. Wash/E. Mifflin (Madison Dairy/Don Miller), there is very little traffic. Therefore it is mostly safe. I do like the sharrows, I think they help educate vehicle traffic to share the space. The corridor is begging for development and it's too bad a full bike blvd. trial could not be put in place now before more intensive uses take over the street in the coming years. David Waugh 1213 East Mifflin Kathryn Kingsbury wrote: How do you like the Mifflin bike boulevard? -- Kathryn Kingsbury Director of Communication, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin www.bfw.org <http://www.bfw.org/> 608-251-4456 <http://www.bfw.org/> <http://bikefed.blogspot.com/> <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/bike.fed.wi?ref=ts> <http://twitter.com/search?q=BikeFed> <http://delicious.com/network/BikeFed> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, David Waugh <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I live on the Isthmus near Tenney Park and bike to my job at the university all year long. There are no off road bike paths for me to take. However, I feel safe on the side roads. When on occasion I find myself on the E. Johnson bike lane, these occurrences of cars coming too close are quite regular. On Saturday I was without a car and therefore biked from my home near Tenney Park to the Villager Mall on South Park for the Mayor's neighborhood round table. I was able to take an off road bike path almost the entire way. I had a huge smile on my face the whole way. What a difference. Thanks Madison for off road bike paths. Because in my opinion, cars and bikes don't yet play well together and maybe never will. I pose the challenge to you who think differently, why do we have sidewalks? Do pedestrians need a space removed from traffic? I position myself as yes they do, because one unnecessary death by a cell phone induced swerve is too many. So, thanks to all of you who have work to create these wonderful bike paths. I wish there were more in my neck of the woods ( I do love the path along the Yahara River and use that regularly.) David Waugh 1213 East Mifflin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:37:37 -0600 From: rick <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [Bikies] Brush-by assualts Message-ID: <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Just curious if anyone else had any incidents today. Both me and my significant other were purposely passed with much less than 3 feet to spare [ aka the brush-by] and then had the offending cars cut into the bike lane ahead of us [ I'm sure many of you are familiar with this tactic of intimidation ] . That's three incidents in the time span of 1 hour today. Hate radio at work? -r -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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