Improved water park access?

[LeprosyStudyGroup]

Yeah I really scratched my head when they recently rebuilt that area on the east side of the street (that will eventually be a covered bus stop I guess?) with seemingly zero consideration of the fact that it is directly next to one of the busiest trail entrances in the entire area, and there is no reasonable way for cyclists to exit from the trail and either head south to the access road or safely cross the street without bumbling through a maze of pedestrians and poles and cars and curbs.

[consularrider]

Darn and I was hoping that this meant I could get to the water (Hidro) park without having to ride on one of the two limited access highway bridges. Wrong country.

[DrP]

@LeprosyStudyGroup 129988 wrote:

Yeah I really scratched my head when they recently rebuilt that area on the east side of the street (that will eventually be a covered bus stop I guess?) with seemingly zero consideration of the fact that it is directly next to one of the busiest trail entrances in the entire area, and there is no reasonable way for cyclists to exit from the trail and either head south to the access road or safely cross the street without bumbling through a maze of pedestrians and poles and cars and curbs.

So, is it possible to make sure all road-related construction plan approval processes in Arlington have a “bicyclist” approver in the mix, like Bike Arlington approves it or the ABAC? It seems that all sorts of recent plans are not doing well on the bicycling front.

[dasgeh]

@DrP 130010 wrote:

So, is it possible to make sure all road-related construction plan approval processes in Arlington have a “bicyclist” approver in the mix, like Bike Arlington approves it or the ABAC? It seems that all sorts of recent plans are not doing well on the bicycling front.

The proper person would be one of Arlington’s two bicycle/pedestrian planners, but there are only two of them. What we really need is an UPDATE TO THE BIKE ELEMENT OF THE MASTER TRANSPORTATION PLAN. And more training for the engineers on bike-related issues.

[chris_s]

@dasgeh 130030 wrote:

The proper person would be one of Arlington’s two bicycle/pedestrian planners, but there are only two of them. What we really need is an UPDATE TO THE BIKE ELEMENT OF THE MASTER TRANSPORTATION PLAN. And more training for the engineers on bike-related issues.

Training, training, training, training. For all of the bike-friendliness in the planning department we have a bunch of relatively car-centric engineers doing the actual designs.

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