Lois E Borman - Riverhead News Review
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who are happy riding on bike lanes. and then there s the 60% of folks that studies have shown that want to ride a bicycle, that are interested in riding a bicycle, whose commute trips are short enough and trips to the store short enough that they could ride a bicycle but there s this sense of fear, sense of discomfort with riding. so what we re trying to do with this project is to create conditions that are more comfortable for walking, more comfortable for cycling, more attractive to get those folks towards those modes. and as you can see from the photos right now it s just not that way. so as we set out on this project we really set the primary goal is to be safety. we came to the community at our first community meeting and shared the collision statistics which i m sharing with you today, combined pedestrian and collisions, 30 collisions that were reported and more as we know that go unreported. and then we worked with the community to develop additional goals. and we as
is already going through a park meandering through a park, separated from traffic, a comfortable place to walk and ride your bike. then the wiggle bike route neighborhood that sort of avoids a lot of hills and gets folks from the west out to market street and to the downtown and beyond. taking a little closer look at the neighborhood, this project focuses on three blocks of oak street and three blocks of fell street. there are so many users, a lot of folks who live here, who want it safer to walk and more livable. we felt we could do this by focusing on three key blocks between scott street and baker street, once again connecting the panhandle on the west to the wiggle bike route and duboce triangle neighborhood to the east. the existing conditions on fell street are that fell street is one way bestbound. there s three lanes of vehicle traffic carrying 30,000 vehicles a day. there s also a bike lane currently on fell street. that bike lane was put in about 10 years ago and re