[SDCBC] What were they thinking? (Camino del Norte)

[Tom Lettington]

I was through there yesterday and someone (CALTRANS?) has put red 
tape over two of four signs that indicated there were two right turn 
only lanes with a bike lane in between them.

At 03:04 PM 4/30/2008, tobin at broadcom.com wrote:
>(update to thread by Tom L circa March 27-29, inland north Co.)
>
>The median work in area of I-15 at CdN is done.  Yesterday, I noticed
>a new bike lane has been painted for e/b Camino del Norte just west of
>I-15 (Caltrans dominion).
>
>Today, I noticed the bike lane for w/b CdN just east of I-15 has been
>reconfigured.  We may never know what they were thinking, but apparently
>someone's input has done some good here.
>
>I opine the w/b reconfiguration is an improvement over:
>
>   http://www.tfl.net/MyPhotoAlbums/CaminoDelNorteApproachingI15FromEast/
>
>I find the new e/b configuration, setup as the w/b configuration was
>before the reconfiguration (i.e. merge across two high speed traffic
>lanes) more scary because of the increased speed differential.  I've only
>taken it once, and I am still contemplating how to deal with this new
>situation safely.  It is on my every-day commute.
>
>Roy
>
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