They have a permit to utilize the bike lane from the city, please give this homeowner a break while they do improvements on their home.

The bike lane is for families and kids to feel safe biking, not the convenience of some paid contractor. They can park on the street or alley.

Understand they have a permit but parking in the center of the wide bike lane and using makeshift barricades to block any passage should not be allowed.

If they do have a permit, it should have never been issued and it should be revoked. Them blocking the entire bikeway is a safety issue for any users of said bikeway. The contractor has many options for on street or alley parking on this or adjacent blocks.

They attempted to only obstruct part of the bike lane, unfortunately due to vandalism of their vehicles and harassment they have had to block it off completely for the safety of the workers. If we can’t work around temporary obstructions so homeowners can do necessary improvements to their properties maybe we just need to give up the experiment and remove the bike lanes from roadways. We accept temporary closures for vehicular traffic, why not bicycle lanes. They won’t be there forever.

They can park across the street, in the alley, or around the corner. When the city closes car lanes or streets for traffic they put up detours and traffic control devices. None of that happened here. This is a safety issue for cyclists. They should not be parked in an all ages bikeway. Also, they've been there at least two days now. How long are they going to continue parking their blocking the bikeway?

What’s confusing is they’ve been working on the porch for weeks. Parking across the street without, it would seem, any issue. The bike lane is not the problem, it’s a huge improvement for bikers and calming the street. Sorry to hear the trailer was vandalized before he took the step of closing the area around the bike. Worried the barricades are only escalating the situation.

Asking a contractor to park their work trailer in an area that is not adjacent to the work site isn’t a practical or workable solution. I agree that traffic diversions would be appropriate, but this is something to bring up with your council representative not the homeowner and not the contractor. They are both doing their best. It is already difficult to get contractors in the city for issues like this, let’s not make it harder.

Christopher, this is a 311 ticket. The entire point of 311 is to bring the issue to the attention of the city.

The builder has a permit, per current city policy they have the right to obstruct lanes of traffic temporarily (day, week, month) as needed to safely complete qualifying projects. If you want a change to this policy it’s not a 311 request, it’s your council member who needs to be talked to.

Your service request (#501369) has been closed.

Notes: Case Closed.
Closed date : Tue Nov 15 10:07:00 CST 2022
Case Resolved
The truck does have a permit to park in the bike lane. No violation