Description
Due to all the potholes in the southbound lane between the 127 & the high school, combined with cars not following the actual radius of the turn, the bike lanes have completely worn away from car traffic over the winter. Please repaint ASAP, there is a lot of extra tourist bike traffic currently because of the detour, increasing the chances that somebody is going to get hurt.
36 Comments
Permitting and Inspections (Verified Official)
Godkänd DPW Pine Customer Service (Verified Official)
jaycatvt (Registered User)
cburch (Registered User)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
That Guy (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
I think snow plows and winter do a great job of damaging painted lines. I would happily drive on a painted line vs destroy my suspension.
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
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cburch (Registered User)
Absolutely not. If you can’t drive over them safely to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle then you are drivin way too fast. If you can’t stay in the proper lane driving under normal conditions and keep hitting them, you shouldnt be driving.
Same with potholes or rough roads in general. If you are swerving all over the road to avoid them, you’re driving too fast for conditions. This isn’t a big city. It doesn’t take that long to drive anywhere. Going 5 mph slower won’t get you there more than a minute or two later but it makes the road exponentially safer for everyone. The speed limit is neither a minimum limit nor an absolute right.
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
Burlington's roads are so bad that 5-10 mph under the speed limit doesn't help. Its called defensive driving, it was taught in drivers ed.
Stef B (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
No bicycles don't cause that, an improperly prepped road subsurface before asphalt in combination with rain, snow, freezing and thawing cause that.
If there are no potholes, what are they avoiding?
Fred (Registered User)
Danny Duval (Registered User)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
Are you serious? Sharing the road means not driving in the bike lane. It means slowing down instead of passing unsafely.
Not wanting bollards and armadillos so you can drive into the bike lane is absurdly entitled.
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
I am serious. No bikes around, whats wrong with utilizing the asphalt to avoid potholes.
About as entitled as a cyclist in Burlington
Clean up my hood! (Registered User)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
"No bikes around, whats wrong with utilizing the asphalt to avoid potholes."
Because you're creating potholes in the bike lane. Because the infamous line after hitting a person on a bicycle is "I didn't see you there."
"About as entitled as a cyclist in Burlington"
You know, if there's one thing to legitimately feel entitled about, it's that a bike lane should only have bikes in it.
Danny Duval (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
CUMH,
It will happen soon if Localmotion continues lobbying and lying to the Public Works Commission and Chapin Spencer runs DPW.
John,
The cars cause the potholes in the bike lane? That's doesn't even warrant a response.
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That Guy (Registered User)
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
That Guy (Registered User)
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
"The cars cause the potholes in the bike lane? That's doesn't even warrant a response."
Crucial ingredient to creating potholes: automobiles driving over weakened asphalt.
"Please repaint the bike lane lines so cyclists stay in their lane."
There isn't a mandatory use law in Burlington or in Vermont, which means a person on a bike can use the bike lane, or the travel lane if they choose.
Display Name Blocked (409268) (Registered User)
So you want your own lane and take up the travel lane. Congrats. It is this entitlement attitude. Can you quote the statute or ordinance
You are correct, over weakened asphalt. If DPW maintained the roads and prepared the surface properly it wouldn't happen. But first, lets just blame the cars.
Toiletmanners (Registered User)
"So you want your own lane and take up the travel lane. Congrats. It is this entitlement attitude. Can you quote the statute or ordinance"
Last time I checked, I'm not as wide as a car. But if the bike lane is full of pot holes because of entitled drivers, then yeah, I'm legally taking the travel lane and you're just going to have to be sad about it.
https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/23/013/01139
"But first, lets just blame the cars."
Acknowledging the automobile's role in the degradation of our city's roads isn't blaming them. Obviously, how we are building our roads isn't sustainable right now.
Clean up my hood! (Registered User)
RJ Lalumiere (Registered User)
"So let’s compare a passenger car and a bicycle instead, both with two axles. Say the bike and its rider weigh in at 200 pounds, and the car at 4,000 pounds. The weight of the car is also 20 times greater than the bike and rider, and the road damage caused would be 160,000 times greater."
https://www.denenapoints.com/relationship-vehicle-weight-road-damage/
Clean up my hood! (Registered User)
Stängt Parking Services Manager (Verified Official)
Traffic Department repainted the bike lanes on North Avenue on 6/9.
The Department of Public Works has resolved this request. Thanks for helping to keep Burlington a great place to live and work.
Clean up my hood! (Registered User)