Today a city crew is out there (with permit) to repair the street for new water lines at 116 Faircloth St. The building construction has been ongoing for weeks, using the bike lane for parking and equipment. We'd hoped that they would lay some gravel for parking on the building lots, but that doesn't seem to be the plan.

Northbound Faircloth Street in this stretch is especially dangerous - drivers see a straight shot to Wade Avenue a half-mile away and immediately start checking their phones (seriously?). Trying to merge from a bike lane into a traffic lane is a challenge on most streets because car drivers expect cyclists to "stay in their lane". Faircloth is even more dangerous. The bike lane should be posted as no parking.

I don't think it's too much to ask contractors to park on Clark or Ruffin and walk past two-three houses to prevent accidents. If the intent of bike lanes is to make travel safer for bicyclists, it's wasted when people continuously block them.

Sent complaint to contractor.

Contractor will police bike lane and let workers know the expectation of not parking long term in lane.

This issue has been closed. If the problem persists, please re-open this issue and give us more detailed information on how to identify the location of the problem - then we will get right on it. Thanks a lot for reporting!

I'm not sure the contact had the desired effect. Today there are trucks with trailers in the northbound lane (one trailer is an enclosed tool trailer, the other holds a small digger) - and they now have the opposite bike lane blocked as well with an unhitched trailer and a separate parked car.

Having both bike lanes blocked on a nice day makes it possible to have 2 bikes and 2 cars trying share the remaining space between with a deadly asymmetry of kinetic energy. I can only hope everyone is situationally aware.

Sadly, I think we need to reopen this one.

Thank you for contacting the City of Raleigh. Your service request ID is #2089239. We will be posting additional updates about your request as we have them.

Both bike lanes were blocked again today.

(and you can several vehicles on the northbound (far) side are wide enough to extend into the car lane)

Contractor haș his traffic now parking on the grass opposite the site - there are usually 2-5 vehicles here and with the start of a 3rd house it's going to continue for a month or more.

Someone also pulled down this no parking sign and dropped in gutter near the muddy parking.

Parking in the big lanes has continued for weeks. Saw this mini-van parked in the bike lane this morning as I was headed out - was still there 1+ hour later. Van is closed up with no activity, so it's not needed for tool access. Cars are crossing the double yellow to avoid it as seen in the photo.

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your parking concern. Staff has spoken with both the contractors and the builder at this location and advised of legal places to park, as well as issued parking citations for the illegal behavior. Should citizens continue to observe illegal parking behavior please reach out to the Raleigh Police Department when these issues are observe the non-emergency number at 919-829-1911.

This issue has been closed. If the problem persists, please re-open this issue and give us more detailed information on how to identify the location of the problem - then we will get right on it. Thanks a lot for reporting!