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Chet & Ruthann Peachey

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Apr 11, 2021, 10:36:18 AM4/11/21
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I agree with John Nafziger about bike lanes on both sides of the road. When we are in Tucson, there are many streets and roads with bike lanes on both sides.  I’ve ridden them in traffic zones that are 45 mph. To me, it is also confusing to both bikers and motorists when riding to oncoming traffic.  College avenue is another example of confusion where people bike both ways on the single sided path.

Barriers are important.  However, those pictured would seem like minimal protection.

Just my thoughts.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:38 PM <goshe...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
John Nafziger <jdnaf...@gmail.com>: Apr 10 03:09PM -0400

I agree that the "delineator posts" are important. My personal choice would
probably be bike lanes on both sides even if there were no delineator posts
but I suspect many bikers would come down on the side of two-way with
delineator posts. One of the safety issues is that motorists might not see
bikes coming along behind them the "wrong" way when the motorist is wanting
to make a left turn. The motorist will be looking ahead for oncoming
vehicles that they need to yield to and not realizing they also need to be
checking for bikers coming along behind them. As usual, it will be left to
bikers to be very alert for vehicles coming from multiple angles.
 
I would like to see MCBAC revived. I know an issue coming up is what
barriers are constructed where bike paths cross the north-south railroad.
We don't want a repeat of the maze that was done at Kercher road.
 
John Nafziger
 
 
 
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 12:06 PM Andrea Milne <andreaj...@gmail.com>
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