Description
The bike lane on Kalamazoo Street in downtown Lansing is great until it abruptly ends at the railroad tracks, thus shooting you back out into the right hand turn lane one block up. Additionally, the next intersection is a poorly marked access point to the Lansing River Trail.
Sure would be nice to finish striping this bike lane all the way into the downtown business district and connect it with the River Trail.
6 Comments
John Lindenmayer (Guest)
CT Livable Streets Campaign (Registered User)
AndWeReWalking (Registered User)
Well, there is a bike lane on the East side of the tracks on both North and south sides. West of the tracks there aren't any bike lane markings (which is what was asked about in orig. post). There is room for them for about 30 yards west of the track on each side of the road. At that point the outer lanes narrow to a normal width not allowing for bike lanes. In fact, that's even before reaching Beech St. I for one wouldn't want a bike lane in tight traffic.
What's the policy with bikes on sidewalks within Lansing? Besides that, what's the policy for bike traffic in this section before the River Trail? Are bikers expected to cycle within traffic lanes?
BTW: The River Trail has a post with markings at the entrance by the SE corner of the Kalamazoo St bridge.
Mark: a side note: There's no position change in Mayor of Lansing now the elections are over. I trust the Mayor has not lessened his interest in the issue at this time. ;)
Michigan Bicyclists (Registered User)
http://www.lmb.org/index.php/Advocacy-Toolkit/sharrows.html
Michigan Bicyclists (Registered User)
Closed City of Lansing (Registered User)
The bike lane will be extended to Larch Street with the reconstruction of Kalamazoo from Pennsylvania to Larch this year (2011). West of Larch, bicycle traffic will need to utilize the traffic lanes.
Andy Kilpatrick
Transportation Engineer