thanks all for volunteering..I hope I can help when next needed...I've been
thinking about writing a blog about simple violations from all users on my way
to work/around town/etc...some reallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly
ridiculous behavior at morning "rush" hour..from cars AND bikes
alike...personal favorites (NOT) 7 cars running red lights with FULL ON
pedestrian vehicle activity on the right of way...yeah you in the grey Rav 4
with plates that begin with UAA...you almost killed two students to get to that
next red light faster....and you in the Grey (must be a theme) skateboard
helmet who road full speed ACROSS A STREET that has bikes and cars with you
having the yield on the East path...then yelling at THEM to get our of your
way....c'mon people...you live in a community with other people doing things
and you have to share the space...there's a few dozen more violations..but
those stick out the most...I could write this everyday..as
could we all...and that ain't that cool.
Troy Thiel
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From: "STRAWSER, Charles" <[email protected]>
To: fortkendall tds.net <[email protected]>; [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2013 8:26 AM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Fwd: Where are not more crashes at University and Park?
This is very interesting data. Thanks for sharing.
Could you be more specific about how long the period of time was in which you
counted 1394 cyclists and 3260 pedestrian crossings?
Thanks,
Chuck Strawser
Pedestrian & Bicycle Transportation Planner
Commuter Solutions
Transportation Services
UW-Madison
Room 124 WARF
610 Walnut St
Madison WI 53726
608-263-2969
www.wisc.edu/trans
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Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2013 9:56 PM
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Subject: [Bikies] Fwd: Where are not more crashes at University and Park?
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From: Schimpff, Jeff A - DNR <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Bikies] Where are not more crashes at University and Park?
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Robbie Webber <[email protected]>; Bikies <[email protected]>
Being a late volunteer for the bike-ped count, I was assigned to the “Gulag”
site at Park and University that was abandoned at the last minute by two other
would-be volunteers.
Placing myself upwind and ten feet above most of the machines that formed a
major portion of the transportation mash-up here, it was in most ways very
enjoyable to witness this cavalcade of youthful and in cases erudite optimism,
energy and everything else streaming by on the sidewalks and bike lanes.
Despite some occasional honking, impatience, wrong-way pedaling, and other
bursts of chaos, the only near-accident occurred when one cyclist swerved
abruptly in front of another in the counter-flow lane, to cross north on Park.
In the same period that Robbie would have been able to have a personal
conversation with every cyclist who came by, at the Park & U intersection
during that same two-hour period, there were approximately:
1,394 bicyclists
3,260 pedestrian crossings (people who made 90 degree crossings were counted
twice – there was no way to keep track of that)
21 skate boarders
Zero dog walkers
The sad part was the creeping motor traffic along University for the first hour
and 15 minutes or so, wherein very few personal autos contained more than one
person, and the persons in those autos vastly outnumbered the cyclists and
pedestrians. Cycling was the far superior way to go at that time, as most
people on the list know.
A little later that evening, one of our local TV news station reporters
referred to an increase in gasoline prices over the past two weeks of 6 cents
per gallon in terms of “pain at the pump.” Obviously, most people in Dane
County are pumped full of anesthetic…
--
Jeff Schimpff & Theresa Stabo
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