[SDCBC] What were they thinking?

[John Eldon]

Carlsbad's traffic engineering department is arguably the most bicycle-responsive (so to speak) in the county. My dealings with them have mirrored Mike's experience.

Mike Elliott <camping.elliott at gmail.com> wrote: Here in Carlsbad I worked with the traffic department on a fairly nasty 
intersection. After restriping it so the bike lane didn't get squashed 
between the curb and the right turn only lane (without even a crosswalk 
to ped across the street there), the traffic signals weren't "seeing" 
cyclists waiting in the middle (straight) or left turn lanes. They put 
me in touch with the contract engineer responsible for the signals and 
he met me there where he found that there was a bad connection and a few other things that needed tweaking. Now the light detects bikes 
perfectly,
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