Description
The Riverside multi-use path essentially stops at the traffic light leaving the Community Health Center parking lot. When bicycling and trying to get from the Riverside multi-use path to North Winooski Ave heading downtown, you either have to use the walk signal or enter the road and take a left from Riverside onto North Winooski in the road, which can be quite difficult with intolerant car drivers not letting you over. It'd be helpful for the traffic light leaving CHC to be sensitive enough for bikes to earn the green light to leave the CHC lot and go straight across onto North Winooski Ave. Right now it doesn't trigger for just bikes and I've sat for multiple light cycles waiting for it.
12 Comments
IT Department (Verified Official)
That Guy (Registered User)
Acknowledged SCormier (Verified Official)
Lewis (Registered User)
SCormier (Verified Official)
vtsurly (Guest)
hd1 (Guest)
Nope (Guest)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
hd1, as a another fellow that owns a motorcycle, our needs aren't ignored. For one, lights are more sensitive to motorcycles than to bicycles (excepting the North Avenue and 127, as one example). Also, the respect I get while on city streets on my motorcycle versus my bicycle is like night and day. Going the same speed and doing the same thing on my bike as I would on my motorcycle causes harassment and dangerous behavior.
I'm not saying people with motorcycles have it good; there's a lot of work to be done still. But motorcyclists and bicyclists should be working together to bring up infrastructure issues like these.
vtsurly (Registered User)
vtsurly (Registered User)
Closed SCormier (Verified Official)