[SDCBC] Fairmount-Montezuma, was Re: What were they thinking?

[markw]

Hmm...   Hey, now that I'm awake, yeah the other Northbound. :)    It's 
going south that I exit on to Camino Del Rio South, then flip the U 
turn, and it's Northbound that I had to deal with traffic coming off 
Montezuma.   Either way it sucks to ride through there during rush hour, 
northbound is worse than southbound.

Mark

Jim Baross, Jr. wrote:
> When that intersection was reconfigured into its "parkway" format, 
> we/SDCBC unsuccessfully fought the plan, and later the bollards that 
> were used for a while to mark the shoulder stripes at the northbound 
> gore. The City Traffic Engineer/Dept Head at the time stated to City 
> Council that this design would be safe for bicycling... :-(
> 
> Worse, the consulting traffic engineer on the project argued with me 
> that bike lanes were appropriately striped to the right of RTO traffic; 
> that from NB Fairmount to EB Montezuma.
> Worse yet. even though there are sidewalks, how in the world is someone 
> to cross?
> 
> But, Mark, don't you have the NB/SB directions reversed? The two lanes 
> WB from Montezuma peel off to NB Fairmount don't they?
>