Comments for “Portsmouth Bicycle and Pedestrian Plan”
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Banfield Rd - narrow and wetlands constrained
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ReplyI’ll live on Walford Lane where there is no safe way to access sidewalks on Peverly Rd, Middle St, the post office, ymca or children’s playgrounds. Banfield is so narrow that riding a bicycle or even walking along Banfield is extremely dangerous.
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Hard / avoid walking and biking on Middle Rd and Greenland Rd
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ReplyThe path between Grafton Avenue and portsmouth Avenue along route 33 should be a designated bike path. In practice it is used as such.
Like Liked 0 times33 is dangerous especially near highway on and off ramps. If westbound, it should be easier to get onto the MUP at Grafton-- currently you have to go up Grafton, make a U-turn, cross an island, and cross some grass to join it.
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Left turns onto Middle St and Islington St from Cass St challenging. Cass is a good neighborhood connection to Borthwick and hospital.
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ReplyLeft turns from Cass onto Middle St are 1000 times better and safer now that sight line blocking parked cars are back against the curb when they belong.
Like Liked 3 timesI agree that the sight lines of Middle Street are much better with cars parked along the curb instead of in the center of the street. That was a dangerous design for everyone, residents, bicyclists, pedestrians, and motorists.
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Left turns onto Middle St and Islington St from Cass St challenging. Cass is a good neighborhood connection to Borthwick and hospital.
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ReplyAny stretch of Islington street needs clearly defined bike lanes that are painted in high contrast colors from the vehicle driving lane. See other comments and reference to the most bikeable cities in the US (Portland, OR; Minneapolis MN) and the world (Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Hamburg).
Like Liked 2 timesAgree re high contrast colors for bike lanes like other notable bike-friendly cities. We lived in NYC and Portland, Oregon for a number of years - lots of helpful things for Portsmouth to learn from those cities to make this town much better / safer cyclists and pedestrians.
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Kids biking in middle of street because of parking on both sides. Alternate parking?
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ReplyAlternating parking would be great, especially if they made it perpendicular parking with a some planters delineate the parking and act as chicanes. This would keep the road narrow, cars slow, and eliminate the risk of dooring.
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This is such a weird road for such a lovely town - it's hideous, completely hostile to pedestrians and bikes (even though there is a bike route at the bridge and on market st.) and full of sex shops and gas stations. It's so close to town it seems crazy we don't make it a more welcoming corridor.
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ReplyThe current Portsmouth Master Plan issued in 2017 directed the City to take steps to return this section of the US -1 By-Pass to a standard un-divided city street and remove the median and have a single lane in each direction. Its traffic volume is similar to Islington Street. See page 45 of the Master Plan. As with many aspects of the Master Plan, this directive was ignored.
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