Fwd: Detour signs in bike lanes on Farm Ln & Mt. Hope Rd.

[Tim Potter]

Does anyone remember when we sent that letter to local road agencies asking them to stop the unsafe practice of placing temporary signage on sidewalks/ paths, bike lanes, paved shoulders?

See my latest attempt below to get the Ingh. Co. Road Dept. to stop this.  Feels like deja vu.

Tim

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From: Tim Potter <flyingdu...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Detour signs in bike lanes on Farm Ln & Mt. Hope Rd.
To: Mark Grebner <mark.g...@gmail.com>
Cc: Kelly Jones <kjo...@ingham.org>, Mark Polsdofer <MPols...@ingham.org>

Thank you for the acknowledgement sir.  The Road Dept. staff are generally good about ack'g my emails about other road-related issues/ problems that I report.

Just so you know, the local bike club, Tri-Co. Bike Assoc. has an advocacy group (that I'm a founding member of) and some years ago we sent a letter from the TCBA board to all the local road agencies about this specific sloppy practice of putting detour and other temporary signage on sidewalks and/ or bike lanes and how unsafe it is, asking them to make sure their sign crews stop doing this.  It's very frustrating to see this continue despite us pointing out the problem.  

I believe the Road Dept. staff needs to acknowledge that our sidewalks, paths and bike lanes/ paved shoulders are part of our transportation network for people who choose or perhaps have no other choice, to use them for their travel around the county.

Tim Potter

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On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM Mark Grebner <mark.g...@gmail.com> wrote:

Tim - 

I'm sure you'll hear back.  If not, let me know. . . .

-mark grebner

"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything." (Ronald Coase)

On Thu, Oct 9, 2025 at 10:26 AM Tim Potter <flyingdu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can I please have the courtesy of a response to this concern?

Thank you,

Tim Potter

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TCBA Advocacy Comm. member
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM Tim Potter <flyingdu...@gmail.com> wrote:

On my bike ride & drive home this evening from MSU I noticed a detour sign in the southbound bike lane on Farm Lane just north of Mount Hope Road and then I noticed a number of other detour signs partly on the paved shoulder (which functions as a defacto bike lane) of Mount Hope Rd approaching Hagadorn Road. Bicyclists are forced to swerve out of these very narrow paved shoulders into the motor vehicle travel lane when they encounter these signs. 

I saw “Road closed” signs for S. Hagadorn Rd. at this intersection, but it appeared to me that the road was open with lots of traffic going south. Are these detour signs even needed anymore?

Please ask your sign contractor to never put detour signs on any part of the roadway.  I have made this same request along with a number of my fellow bike advocates in Ingham County for many years. 
Can you explain why this is still happening?

Thank you in advance.

Tim Potter
4632 Van Atta Rd
Okemos, Mi

[Robert Pena]

Don't remember. Recommend sending it out again.

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[Tom Hardenbergh]

Tim, I remember your email, but not when it was sent.  Was it during Kalamazoo/US127 intersection work?  Perhaps Dale can find the topic in Advocacy Agenda.  

[artbe...@sbcglobal.net]

  I will report on a positive note that there have been several cases of detour signs along W. 
Saginaw/MDOT road,  street in East Lansing, And the signs DON"T block the sidewalk anymore. Too bad other agencies still don't get it.

                    Art

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