Comments for “AMATS Bicycle Plan Implementation”
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A simple dirt trail on the south side of Muldoon would be a winner as there are no crossings at all for a couple of miles. This would connect the existing trail along Tudor to the west to the Muldoon neighborhoods and Far North Bicentennial Park. Would make a great route for a lot of people to get out and enjoy nature.
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Echo concerns regarding crossing here. The options are: 1. take your life in your hands by crossing at the logical spot. 2. Cross at the light, which requires a detour and a wait. 3. Cross at the tunnel, which requires you to bike up the hill just to go back down it. None of which are very good for such an excellent route. Just last Saturday I saw about 6 people all crossing at the same time- technically illegally.
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This is an extremely hazardous corner due to right-turning traffic trying to shoot gaps in EB traffic on 15th, not looking right, running red lights etc. There is real estate here to put in a safety island where bikers can seek refuge when there are gaps in traffic, similar to Airport Heights and the Glenn. This most likely will be the official detour route this summer for the Chester Creek Refurbishment.
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Cars do not stop for bikes waiting to cross here.
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There is room to put in a dedicated bikeway between D and A on 6th, possibly beyond. The traffic on 6th is too voluminous and fast to safely "take the lane", there are car doors to be concerned with and the sidewalk is crowded. The trail could continue at Cordova to Ingra to link in with the wide sidewalk along 5th. Thinking of a more direct route out of town.
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This area here would be a great place for a connector trail between downtown Anchorage and Muldoon/Eagle River. It could tie in with the existing trail at McCarrey/Pine. Right now, it just sort of dead ends. To place a simple trail here would avoid so much cross traffic for bike commuters.
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A "beg button" crosswalk either here or slightly to the west would drastically reduce the risk of pedestrian deaths. This is a heavily traveled route and nobody wants to add 1/2 mile to their walk home from work.
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The traffic on this road will never warrant 4 lanes. The sidewalk is heavily traveled. Although a cyclist can legally "take the lane", wouldn't it be better to have a dedicated bikeway?
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The sidewalk here is intentionally very curvy, and it is only a couple of years old. Designers need to be thinking of bikes traveling 10-15MPH. This is just past the termination of a bike trail, so it really is the safest route between 9th and 10th on A. The curves detract from safety in multiple ways: it takes the cyclist out of the line of sight of crossing traffic and it creates a higher workload, both balance and concentration, when the cyclist should be focusing on avoiding a collision.
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Turf season began this week and it exposed yet another failure of the current design of this spur. The trail ends straight into a handicapped parking spot. Sure, there is a narrow path which goes around the spot, but it requires 2ea. 90 degree turns in a very short distance. Wouldn't it have just been easier to terminate the trail into the middle of the parking lot? This would be a very simple, inexpensive fix.
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10th Ave Bike Boulevard
Any thought of adding sharrows to I and L to facilitate riding north from and south to the "bike boulevard"? The cars have 3 lanes there, how about sharing one?
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Wisconsin Street Bike Lane
The current bike lane striping goes away at Northern Lights and W35th to accommodate a third (turn) lane. Where that happens, please mark the driving lanes with "sharrows" so cars expect us to merge into the appropriate lane for the direction we're going.
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The new ER Road to the Nature Center is nice but the increased speed limit without wide enough shoulder makes it unsafe for cycling. A lot of riders use this as a training ride with the hills. Lowering the speed limit would be helpful.
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I like the idea of using this artery as a north south corridor. Because there are fewer intersections I could see how it may be a shared road but appropriate stripping/ cyclist lanes should be used at the intersection larger intersections such as Debarr.
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I travel on Spenard often as it has two lanes and traffic is relatively slow. The road often needs repair but could also benefit from bike lanes and signage alerting cyclists use this artery.
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Cycling on Tudor requires that users use extreme defensive cycling tactics. I personally use Tudor but am very cautious at every intersection AND parking lot turn-in.
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This intersection's light does not recognize cyclists using the road forcing the cyclist to cross over to the sidewalk to push the pedestrian button and then merge again with traffic traveling west on Potter, which has no sidewalk.
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32nd Avenue is a great thoroughfare for cyclists. There is less traffic than other roads in midtown. It would be great to have signage directing cycling traffic to these smaller arteries in town. The signs would alert cars that bikes are more present and alert cyclists that these routes are available. Slower speed limits on these arteries could also reduce traffic, further encouraging cyclists to use them.
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There appears to be a shoulder on Arctic for biking, but there is no signage. Is this a bike lane? Is so designate it as one.
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This is a tricky intersection for cyclists using the Homer Drive and Brayton drive as North/South Access. Perhaps so signage with blinking lights alerting drivers that pedestrians are also crossing this area.
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This area could use lighting to allow users safer routes between the Chester Creek train and midtown.
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There is an access discontinuation on 72nd. Here, our street grid is interrupted, but unlike other discontinuous streets, 72nd does not provide an access easement. As a result, bikers and pedestrians have to travel several blocks around, or cross the muddy swampy area that connects to the other portion of 72nd. It its very important that a gravel trail be built there.
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More of a for-the-tourists concession, but a sign here saying "for the love of God, this is a two-way trail, PLEASE keep right" would only improve things as tourists get on their brand-new rented bikes, turn left, and blithely head downhill three abreast toward a blind curve under a tunnel.
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Man, so torn about this idea. You are 100% right as a matter of routing and logistics, of course. But I don't know that I'd actually vote to facilitate access through here/compromise this area's more wild park feel.
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I grew up riding along Wisconsin to get from my house (Sand Lake neighborhood) to Lyn Ary. But I finally realize that E Turnagain Blvd was a much better bet - just head east on 42nd Ave. from Wisconsin, then take Turnagain all the way north to N. Lights. (Then you can backtrack back toward Lyn Ary, or just head east into Forest Park, depending on how directly you want to get to downtown.) If I were in charge, I would direct bike traffic toward E Turnagain as a more common N-S route in this area of town.