I ride an incredibly crappy, dangerous, grossly underfunded (because the mayor detests cyclists) segregated bikeway twice a day. I’m used to pretty much any abuse an American city can throw at a cyclist, but about a month ago I started having to deal with cars coming are me head on, inside the supposedly segregated bikeway. It always happened at the same intersection, and it didn’t take long to figure out why. The cars in the right lane were being directed by arrows in the road to turn into an opening in the bollards that was there to allow cars to enter into a business parking lot. Instead of turning into the business, they “changed lanes” and continued down what they thought was a turning lane (but was actually the bikeway), and then turned right. For once it wasn’t the drivers’ fault it was the idiot who designed this nightmare.
I made several point calls and finally got a call back from a guy who works for a private company that actually does all the real design work. He told me he’d fix it. A month or so later, it’s fixed. They did exactly what he said he’d do. They put yellow lane divider bollards at each end on what the section of bikeway the cars were using for an exit ramp. So there you go.
by audiomagnate
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Ah, Omaha. The city where the only bike lanes were funded by philanthropists. The design of this bikeway is only so poor because of the city’s pushback on it.
Well done 👏👏👏👏