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This 3 lane bridge to access the city centre has no provision for cycling and at the city side has this roundabout for people on bikes to negotiate.
Replying to 26106 (Doug Gordon – Prospect Park West bike lane in Park Slope, Brooklyn)
Incremental change: Add some planters between the motor and cycle traffic to create a safer and more attractive space for cycling. Replace inside kerb with shallow angled kerbs to make it safer for people to cycle closer to the inside edge.
Opposition: Cost perhaps, maintenance of planters. Would make parking a car a little more difficult so I’m sure people would complain about potentially scraping cars off the planters.
The pickings are slim in my area so this was the best I could do. What I like about it is that it’s probably one the first pieces of infrastructure built in the city (maybe 10-15 years ago?) yet it is one of the few fully segregated cycle tracks in the city. It’s narrow for a two-way but it’s lightly trafficked so it’s not really a problem. Another nice feature that has been forgotten about on all recent infrastructure is the slightly raised angled kerb between the cycleway and footway. The markings were repainted recently. The downside is that it’s short and the junction treatments (roundabouts) at either end are poor.
Hi there, I’m Leo from Ireland
1) I qualified as an Industrial Designer over 25 years ago and pretty much since then my professional career has focussed on human/user centred design.
2) Being human focussed and not coming from a traffic engineering background, I think my design experience will allow me to ask questions and evaluate designs in ways that may not be covered by traditional traffic engineering design processes.
3) You can read some of my ramblings on twitter at @LkCycleDesign
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