keep spending that money we dont have on nonsense like this. Ignorant Spoiled LIberals!!!

We need segregated and/or buffered bicycle infrastructure on bridges like this.

Rebuilding this bridge without them was a huge mistake.

Carl, bike infrastructure has been shown to be highly effective in every city. I'm not sure where you base your claim that drivers or bicyclists ignore them. When a bike lane was recently installed in NYC, this year, incidents of sidewalk bicycling immediately dropped from 50% to 4%, and the number of speeding drivers also dropped by a similar amount.

There are plenty of reasons why fiscal conservatives should like bike lanes. Consider this:
-- Our nation's epidemic of childhood obesity and diabetes is a major contributor to rising healthcare costs. This epidemic results largely from the lack of opportunities for everyday physical activity in the life of a child in America. Making it convenient for residents of the Fair Haven Heights, Annex, and Fair Haven neighborhoods to get around by bicycle will more than pay for itself through the resulting reduction in health care costs.
-- Any marginal reduction in automobile traffic over time yields major reductions in the wear on the roadway and thus will reduce maintenance costs. If marking bike lanes allows even a few people to make some routine trips by bicycle instead of automobile, it will be worth it from a budgetary standpoint.
-- In order to be economically competitive, cities today must attract talented young people. Talented young people like bike lanes (hopefully I am as qualified as anyone to make this generalization). If making all of New Haven amenable to bicycling convinces even just a handful of talented young people to put down roots in New Haven, the added tax revenue will more than offset the cost of the bike lanes.
-- You could stripe hundreds of miles of bike lanes for the cost of just one freeway interchange (feel free to crunch the numbers on this, but I think it is a good first approximation).

Brian, you are absolutely correct. Bike lanes are the proverbial "low hanging fruit" when it comes to economic development and health promotion.

Portland, Oregon, which has the highest percentage of bicycle commuters of any major city, built its entire 300-mile network of bike ways for cost of 1 mile of urban freeway: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-dulken/joyride-bicycling-our-way_b_696058.html

The sooner that the city and state gets on board with this strategy, the better off we will all be.

Sharrows have been marked on either ends of the bridge. The metal grate on the bridge prevents marking of additional sharrows.

Reopened per resident request.

There should be buffered lanes or a cycle track across this bridge. A couple of sharrows is not particularly helpful.

If the city determines that cycle track or buffered bike lane can not be accommodated, then this issue should be left open until the bridge itself is redesigned as something that accommodates road users of all ages and abilities. Either that or until someone is hired at City Hall who has a more creative approach.

This issue was recategorized from Uncategorized to Signs / Bus Shelters / Pavement Markings.

Thank you for your post. We are currently investigating this concern.

We are trying to delineate issues that are current and need the city's attention to resolve and as a result a number of historical issues are being closed. If your issue persists and needs to be addressed by the city please open as a new See Click Fix issue. Thank you.