[SDCBC] Bike lanes on Mission Ave

[Kathy Keehan]

I got a call about the potential for taking out a traffic lane on Mission
Ave (from Park to Texas) and putting in a bike lane instead. I'm not too
familiar with the area, but I understand that Mission Ave is a one-way
diagonal cut-through street that currently has two lanes for most of it, but
one lane in some sections. The idea would be to remove one of the traffic
lanes and stripe a bike lane (and probably a buffer on the right side of the
bike lane) to take up the space. 

I'm going to go take a look at it on Thursday, but some ideas/concerns I
have include -

1.       We don't want to put in a bike lane simply for traffic calming.
Does the street have enough traffic, at high enough speeds, where a bike
lane is really warranted? There are a lot of bike lanes going in simply for
traffic calming, without regard for bicyclists. 

2.       Is there the potential of providing a contraflow bike lane on the
street, making it two way for bikes while keeping it one way for auto
traffic?

Any of you familiar with the area and have some ideas for what would be good
for bicyclists?

Kathy

 

 

Kathy Keehan

Executive Director

San Diego County Bicycle Coalition

P.O. Box 34544

San Diego, CA 92163

858.487.6063

execdir at sdcbc.org

www.sdcbc.org

 

 

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