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YoYoMoMa t1_ix93b4n wrote

Reply to comment by moderndukes in “Controversy emerges over changes to Baltimore’s Central Avenue streetscape as it nears completion” (Baltimore Sun) by moderndukes

>Many expected a four-lane road, with two northbound and two southbound lanes

Well they are dumb. Thank God no one listened to them.

>a protected bicycle path will run between sidewalks and parking lanes

Hell yes let's go.

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todareistobmore t1_ix9a98g wrote

Well, this design is dumb--it's not like it's with the city's power to make MTA participate in making this a transit corridor, but given that they may as well have daylighted the falls rather than make two parking lanes.

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd1a5i wrote

The design is not dumb, bike lanes are good especially when they double as traffic calming in dense areas. Making it a transit corridor as well would be even better, but I’d delete the auto lanes for transit, not the bike lane.

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todareistobmore t1_ixd5is6 wrote

The bike lane isn't the problem, it's putting two lanes of parking there. TBH I don't know the background of the places like Boston St. where there's street parking but only during non-peak hours, but I think it's a lot easier to imagine that being the next iteration of this design than a transit corridor. Just feel like this had the opportunity to be a really forward-looking design in a bunch of different ways and this is disappointing. But then honestly between my office moving out of Fells and the Broadway Market renovation, I hardly ever bike to Fells these days anyway.

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixd94ak wrote

The point was to have traffic calming. Adding back in a traffic lane defeats that purpose. I’m not sure what you are calling for here to improve it. Could you elaborate? (We know they aren’t adding a BRT lane for a circulator or light rail.

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todareistobmore t1_ixdb811 wrote

Not entirely sure, tbh. Like I think daylighting the canal would've been great and compatible with both traffic calming and a bike lane (at the expense of parking), but with that and transit off the table I think I'd still rather have the bike lane in the middle of the road like the proposal for 33rd St. Then you could put the parking against the curb but have bumpouts to shorten crossing distances too?

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TerranceBaggz t1_ixjakhk wrote

It would be pretty awesome to have the water taxi run up the canal into the central part of the city.

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