[SDCBC] Black Mountain Road interchange

[Tom Lettington]

I'd participate in the "ride in".  Sooner or later someone is going 
to get killed at that place.  There was a mother with an infant in a 
stroller and two small children on bikes trying to negotiate a north 
to south crossing on the west side of BMR.  Guts but few brains!


At 10:15 AM 6/22/2006, Kathy Keehan wrote:
>How motivated are all of you about this interchange? Because if you really
>want to change behavior out there, we can do it, but we'll have to band
>together and get some help.
>Here's what I've got in mind. We could stage a 'ride in' or a 'walk in' at
>Black Mountain Road. We saturate that intersection for a morning or an
>afternoon. 20 or 30 bicyclists/walkers going back and forth at the
>intersection - every signal phase we've got someone crossing some leg of
>that intersection. We carry signs, if we want. We get some media attention
>to the problem (can you say "Turko Files"?) and if we want to go all the
>way, we coordinate with the police to do some targeted enforcement at the
>intersection.
>What do you think?
>Kathy
>
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>Subject: Re: [SDCBC] Crash on Carmel Valley Bike Path
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>
> > But, the walk sign is "on" for eastbound cyclists and peds at the same
> > time the light is green for eastbound traffic coming off the 56 and
> > turning right to go south across their path.
>
>How "sweeping" is the end-of-off-ramp transition onto the surface street?
>
>Photo of motorists given green while the crosswalk is illuminated?
>
>If any kind of sweepingness exists at all, I'll be the first to join
>the letter writing campaign to lobby for correction of this deadly
>configuration.
>
>I can empathize -- I deal with the east side of I-15 & Scripps Poway
>Parkway interchange* most every day.
>
>*the light sequence here was changed earlier this year to *not* give
>"sweeping right" off-ramping motorist a green across the illuminated
>crossgauntlet of the Cara Knott Bike Path.
>
>Roy
>
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