DDOT hosted the first meeting of the Crosstown Multimodal Traffic Study earlier this week. The presentation and boards are all available at the project website. There's not much in the way of breathtaking images or data here, beyond some existing conditions.
The Vision Zero Board shows a lot of the crowd-sourced information, including the areas where cyclists have issues. There's no explanation on the board for each of these, but I agree with what I see. Irving and Michigan are terrible near the hospital. I think the info is pulled from the interactive map.
The existing facilities map drives how just how few bike facilities there are in this area.
The next meeting is scheduled for April.
So we can look forward to DDOT studying the matter for a couple of years, committing to a change in 2 years, actually implementing the changes 3-5 years from now, and of course straying from best practice in the name of compromise with people who really just don't want cyclists on the street at all. If we're lucky.
Posted by: JR | February 11, 2016 at 01:29 PM
Slow and steady wins the race. Or as they said in Cameroon "Small small catch monkey. Hurry hurry broke trousers."
Posted by: washcycle | February 11, 2016 at 01:43 PM
Hadn't heard that phrase before (the West African version, not the Aesop version). Nice bit of word archaeology here:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-sof2.htm
Posted by: Shalom | February 11, 2016 at 03:02 PM