Fwd: [newhilleast] Re: NIMBY-ism and Lincoln Park

[Ryan Velasco]

A victory for an even bike friendlier Lincoln Park...posted on Hill East Listserv.  For those not on the Hill, please share anything that is bike-infrastructure related you may come across.

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From: volcrano <volc...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:07 PM
Subject: [newhilleast] Re: NIMBY-ism and Lincoln Park
To: newhi...@yahoogroups.com

 

More on this

http://www.tbd.com/blogs/tbd-on-foot/2010/10/changes-coming-to-lincoln-park-streetscape-3203.html

"Tommy Wells chief of staff Charles Allen just posted a note listing the new changes being made for "improved safety." They include four "speed tables" -- think long and less pronounced speed bumps -- on the north and south sides of the square, three of which will function as raised crosswalks as well. DDOT will also add more crosswalk and pedestrian signage and paint new bike lanes on the north and south sides of the park. So an already bike-friendly neighborhood will be that much friendlier."

David
3xx Kentucky

--- In newhi...@yahoogroups.com, Margaret Holwill <mgholwill@...> wrote:
>
> Good news this morning via ANC6a03 Commissioner David Holmes:
> "The speed tables are returning on both sides of Lincoln Park. I'm told
> that my request for a second speed hump on the north side (to match the two
> on the south side) will be honored. All four should go in soon."
>
> The probably reason that they will be the standard asphalt rather than brick
> or cobblestone is cost.
>
> The speed tables made a remarkable difference as a traffic calming measure
> in the "raceway" that Lincoln Park had been for the decades that we had
> taken our lives in our hands as we crossed to the Park with our kids and
> dogs.
> I'm sorry to say that I got slammed a few times when I wasn't attentive to
> my own speed. Learned the lesson and now I'm much more sensitive to speed
> limits all over the Hill.
>

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