Comments for “Portsmouth Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan”
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Seems like a missed opportunity to create some protected, and safe biking infrastructure on Islington. It's been a massive project and it's not safe (IMO) to bike on Islington - unless you bike on the sidewalk. A protected bike lane (fully separated) on Islington would have been a game changer and enabled a great corridor to downtown.
I take State to get from the West End to downtown, but State also has 2 way traffic, no protected bike path, and tons of parked cars on both sides of the road. -
Sidewalks on Ocean Road would allow me to walk down to the bike trail. Sidewalks would also allow us to just take our dog for a walk down the street and meet some of our neighbors along the way. Living at the top of Ocean Rd means we are a bit far from the Portsmouth community. Sidewalks would would make us feel more included.
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A favorite bike ride on the weekend - but it's not separated and State Street is concerning on a bike. Of course, getting to Prescott Park on a bike is excellent - and then it is a beautiful ride to Newcastle - however, the bridge and causeway to Newcastle is dangerous on a bike - feels like this should be a natural biking area - it's beautiful and passes through some great areas.
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Needs crosswalk
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Needs crosswalk.
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Needs crosswalk
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Needs crosswalk
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Needs sidewalk.
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The greenery along this section of the sidewalk has grown out so that the entire sidewalk is not walkable. Branches extended out and overhead, making it impossible to safely walk down the sidewalk pushing a stroller. It is also not safe to step off the sidewalk because cars whip around the corner going way too fast and the greenery makes it so that the corner is a blind corner (when taking a right from Middle Rd.). Please cut back the bushes along this short section of sidewalk!
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I bike on Court when I bike from Prescott Park back to my office on State Street. It's not ideal, but low traffic and seems like to best option to get from the park back to 600 State Street.
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Very challenging to bike or walk.
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State Street could be an excellent biking corridor to downtown. However, there are parked cars on both sides of the road, 2 way traffic, and I'm always concerned about getting 'doored' and avoiding traffic
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There is a cross walk here, but the lines are very feint and there are no street signs for cars indicating that it is a cross walk. The rest of Islington cross walks have signage for cars indicating a cross walk
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Again, bikes lanes would be nice or signage to help cyclists get through these busy lights
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Bikes lanes would be helpful along this whole stretch of Middle St out to Pease
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Sidewalks on both sides, or speed bumps. People walk on both sides of street and cars drive very fast as a thruway to New Castle
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Better signage about sharing the road
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Sidewalk on both sides would be helpful here
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Sidewalk on both sides of the street, busy area
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This footpath allows access to Market Street but the sidewalk is on the other side of the street. There should be a safe way for pedestrians to cross the street here and there isn’t.
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The sidewalk here is way too narrow for all of the foot traffic. Pedestrians are squeezed between lamp posts and buildings and there’s not even enough room for two people to walk side by side never mind walking a dog or pushing a stroller. It’s a major injustice that drivers have three travel lanes on Congress Street and yet pedestrians are so crammed together and have to walk into the street to get around each other.
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This is a very scary place to cross the street despite the rectangular flashing beacon and crosswalk. Doing so is a leap of faith because you cannot see if vehicles are coming from the direction of Islington Street and drivers cannot see you. On my bike I have almost hit pedestrians crossing there more than once.
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There needs to be a crosswalk right here. Many residents who live on Morning Street and surrounding neighborhood cross here on their way to downtown regularly and this will become more common with the eventual construction of the North Mill Pond Multi-use Path.
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There is currently a multiuse path along Cate Hodgdon Brook that should connect to the eventual North Mill Pond MUP. The easiest way for that to happen would be to cut across a tiny sliver of the Eldridge Office Park parking lot, onto Morning Street and then cross Bartlett Street (with the aid of a crosswalk) to the NMP MUP.
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Going up Woodbury in the direction of Rite Aid on a bike is fine since there is a fair amount of shoulder. However, going down is horrible since there is virtually no shoulder, there are sewer grates and road debris along the curb, cars go very fast and are impatient to pass because it is a long straight road without obstacles. Maplewood is a better bike alternative even if it takes longer and there is an added hill, at least there is a bike lane, some raised intersections to slow cars down, and less car traffic. The problem is that it is hard to turn left from the right side of Woodbury onto Maplewood. It was much easier to do that when the temporary speed cushions were in place which slowed cars down to a speed that made in comfortable for cyclists to take the lane.