[SDCBC] Inland Rail Trail Update

[Serge Issakov]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Philip Erdelsky <pje at efgh.com> wrote:

>
>
> Mission Rd. retains its bike lanes, and serious bicyclists will want
> to keep using it. However, one flaw, which I first noticed in 2006,
> has still not been corrected. Where Mission Rd. passes under Highway 78,
> signs direct eastbound cyclists in the bike lane right into a patch
> of soft earth under the overpass. You'd be well advised to use the
> path in that area.
>
> Photographs:
>
> <snip> <http://www.efgh.com/bike/irt2.jpg>
>      http://www.efgh.com/bike/irt3.jpg


Alternatively, what is likely to be taught in a LAB course is to
look back and merge into a lane-controlling position in the right traffic
lane, negotiating as required, early enough so that you have safely
and clearly established a conspicuous lane-controlling position before
reaching the point where the guard rails starts in the photo.  That right
traffic lane looks too narrow to safely share side-by-side with cars,
especially in the underpass with the k-rails apparently squeezing in.

I'm not sure what direction you'd be headed, but the only way I'd not use
that approach here is maybe if I was traveling right into a low sun, in
which
case I might use the path.

Serge
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