Comments for “Portsmouth Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan”
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Bring back the bus stop here! It's incredible the PTS approved changing this into additional parking for cars!
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ReplyDon't forget the current City Council approved removing the bus stop to create 4 additional parking spaces. This City Council's greed for parking revenue is insatiable. Let COAST bus riders be damned. Show me the money!!!!!!!!!!.
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There is not a safe way for cyclists to get from Dover to Portsmouth. The Newington part is acceptable, but the next step of the path is Woodbury Avenue which has fast unobservant drivers, many lanes, and no separate bicycle infrastructure.
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ReplyI agree with this statement completely. This end of portsmouth is largely not included in the bike network which is a shame because there are so many opportunitites to get people to do their shopping via walk/bike/transit.
Although expensive, wayfinding signs would be useful.
Like Liked 2 timesBike / Ped improvements are expensive. Therefore, demand Portsmouth's statehouse delegation to introduce legislation to increase the NH gasoline tax to a $1 or $ 2 per gallon. The current 24 cents a gallon is peanuts.
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Congress street should be totally pedestrianised. It's a nuisance to drive though, and on weekends (especially in the summer) the sidewalks are overflowing with tourists and people leisurely enjoying their day. Blocking off congress street (at least!) to cars will give pedestrians more space to exist.
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ReplyMake Congress St a pedestrian way only? Get real. And where would all the southbound vehicle traffic from Maine via Daniel St go? Bow Street ? Penhallow ? For this idea to work, a Boston I-93 "Big Dig" style tunnel below Congress would need to be constructed. Good Luck with that.
Like Liked 1 timeTraffic from Maine should be moved back onto State St. as it used to be. It makes no sense to route so much through traffic into Market Square. The city is already investigating the benefits of making State St. two-way again.
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https://www.cityofportsmouth.com/sites/default/files/2023-10/10.5.23%20VII.%20B%20State%20St%202%20Way.pdfCity can investigate all it wants about turning State St into a two-way street. Too bad State St and Congress and Daniel are not City streets. They are NHDOT streets that were once the original US-1. Has anyone received permission from NHDOT about the 2-way State St idea?
Like Liked 0 timesI suppose DOT won't make that change unless prompted by Portsmouth. It's not unreasonable, as Rt 1 was two-way traffic on State St in recent history and there is the Rt 1 bypass. If DOT doesn't care to improve the communities they serve, that's a separate issue Portsmouth can deal with once it get there.
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Traffic on Miller is regularly 10-20 MLH above the speed limit making it unsafe for crossings at Lincoln and Rockland. There should be other stop signs on the route or a traffic light at Miller and Lincoln. It is highly trafficked by children and families and is unsafe with blind hills near rockland
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Portions of South Street between Broad and Pinehurst have no sidewalk. (I think there used to be one.) This route connects the Middle School and Little Harbour, but pedestrians on the south side of the street must walk in the road or cross over. This isn't a safe crossing because when traffic is backed up from the light at Sagamore, the sightlines are poor. Unfortunately, it would be hard to restore the sidewalk without removing some lovely big trees.
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I live about here. We are within biking distance of downtown and our schools however we rarely bike. We understand this is a state road that encompasses three towns, but our stretch feels very unsafe. People often speed in this stretch to the stop sign. I watch cars cross the white line into the area where my kids are biking or we are walking. It often feels like a desperate race to get off our road to sidewalks and safer places. I think the "newcastle loop" needs to be addressed more broadly as this is a very popular walking, running, biking route but can feel very unsafe at multiple points along the way.
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ReplyNH 1-B from Sagamore Road, all through New Castle, to Pleasant Point Drive is a NHDOT owned and maintained road. Direct your statehouse delegation rep to add a project onto the NHDOT Ten Year Plan.
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Richards is a beautiful place to walk and bike, especially to get to the library and the middle school, but it feels too narrow for 2-way traffic AND on-street parking. Cars are pretty good at giving way to each other, but not so good at giving way to cyclists coming in the opposite direction.
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There is a bike lane and a pedestrian crossing at this point; however, the pedestrian crossing sign in the middle of the road creates a hazard, pushing cars closer to the bike lane as they try to give it space. (That sign is often found out of position, too.) A flashing pedestrian crossing would be safer and would have the benefit of being in operation all year round.
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The absence of a full paved sidewalk on Parrott Ave is dangerous for pedestrians trying to get from the Middle School to the South End.
Sight lines entering and exiting the Middle School and library could be better. Cars and larger vehicles block the sight lines, especially at the library-side exit of that parking lot.
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This route could really use a sidewalk. It is a main corridor. The 55+ community built one in front of their place, but it ends abruptly on some rocks and then grass and then the driveway for the auto parts store. It should be illegal to do this. They should HAVE to connect. If you're trying to get ANYWHERE in a wheelchair, good luck.
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