[cyarie]

Please do not call the police. They are not there for us to settle matters like this, and, in the best case, it’s a massive waste of their time.

Just leave a note or talk to the property owner — if that doesn’t work, escalate as per dasgeh’s post.

[cyarie]

The comment form is online.

They really did a number on what would have been a great bike box at Washington and Pershing, all for the sake of saving three whole parking spots.

Given my experience with the current median, Option B is still much better than Option A, but sigh — can’t help but think the “car free charade” ranters have at least a small point when this is how county staff react to pushback with these kinds of projects.

[cyarie]

@Judd 178511 wrote:

I was all set to leave and then the skies opened up and persisted for most of the duration of the meeting. Doesn’t look like the opportunity to comment online is up yet, but I’ll make sure to comment as soon as it does.

I was also guilty of this (also, my folks are in town before we head out of it). Gonna comment when the box goes up — still really worried that plopping a median down the middle of Pershing from Barton to Wash will lead to a duplication of the s***show that exists east of Barton. Also curious to hear what the neighborhood was thinking about this, given the *actual* feedback was more split/indifferent than the CA’s original letter from a year back would indicate, but the most cantankerous and curmudgeonly voices are always the loudest…

[cyarie]

@Judd 176989 wrote:

The All Powerful Bicycle Lobby wishes you the best of luck in your endeavor.

The All Powerful Bicycle Cult Lobby: Our Punch Tastes Suspiciously Like Stout.

[cyarie]

Here’s what I posted:

Crystal Drive needs a protected bike lane. This will keep people on bikes off the sidewalks, prevent double-parking in the lanes, and make folks safer. This project shares a block with a future Metro entrance, is right next to Metroway, and has a massive parking garage built into it. This kind of excessive on-street parking is a bad example of transit-oriented development, and should be reconfigured.

[cyarie]

@chris_s 161890 wrote:

This looks great, and would be amazing if paired with a contraflow lane on 7th and a bike phase of the light to get to and from it.

I’d actually be happy to just start with turning some of the stop signs down 7th and then 5th so I can keep my CaBi tank moving while heading down to Ballston, but that sounds nice, too

Also, I’m not convinced these will lead to more right hooks, because the plans change the intersection geometry in a way that’ll force cars making turns onto Pershing’s side streets to go much, much slower. For real, you can currently make some wide and fast turns on Cleveland and Danville; try that with the PBL layout, you’re going to catch a giant concrete planter. The current layout also allows parking right up to the intersection, which eliminates any possibility of safely turning to avoid hooks. Even if these *did* increase right hook odds (again, not convinced they do), it still eliminates dooring, and would be: a) an overall safety improvement, and b) a nice (if small) piece of bike infrastructure that’ll help convince those interested, but concerned riders to get out on a bike and go somewhere.

Sounds like an overall positive to me.

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