Comments for “Alachua Countywide Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan/ SS4A Action Plan”
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All of 235 needs repair and repaving between Alachua and Newberry.
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Needs repaving
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I would walk to this shopping center and the Oaks Mall, but heavily congested with vehicular traffic - red light running, blocked intersections, speeding, tailgating.
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241 and 78th Ave have a lot of vehicles traveling over the speed limit and driving aggressively. There is no ASO presence ever to dissuade this. 78th Ave has huge trucks going down it from the distribution centers tearing up the road. These trucks should have to go out to 441. There is no shoulder or bike lane for people and they walk or bike right in the street.
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NW 6th St. between 8th Ave. and NW 39th Avenue need a road diet and marked pedestrian crossings. Urgent need for crossing at NW 21st Ave. for Access to Curia Coffee and Aux Market
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Cars parked illegally limit visibility and cause vehicles to have to travel into oncoming traffic.
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Sidewalk on the north side of SW 4th Ave ends with a storm drain. There is no ramp to cross SW 7th Terrace. Crosswalk markings crossing SW 7th Terrace would be beneficial.
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There is no safe place to cross for access to the bud stops and tha cars go very fast along NW 43rd St
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Crosswalk ramps are a trip hazard for pedestrians. There is no rail, side curbs are not pained to draw attention and there is no object to prevent a person tripping over the edges of the ramp. My husband fell over one of these at the art fest
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Trail crossing signal is presently switching to the flashing red for drivers, while the pedestrian signal is still flashing the Red Hand of Darwin. This results in cyclists and runners speeding-up to make it through, while releasing the road traffic from the solid red signal.
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many cars racing and speeding on NW16 Blvd from NW43 St to NW 34 St
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Drivers often do not pay attention at this intersection, and it is a main intersection for residents in the area who would like to walk into Butler Plaza. I have almost been hit by cars multiple times, end even bikes that do not feel safe using the bike lane.
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This area needs a sidewalk, between the signalized crosswalk on 16th, to Citizens' field, to complete the sidewalk along the entire length of NE 15th St.
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83rd street has been in terrible condition since the early 2000’s what little patching is done is sloppy. Drivers are all over the road trying to avoid holes. It’s an embarrassment to the county especially in front of a college.
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A pedestrian crosswalk is needed in this area. This would add pedestrian connectivity to Reserve Park, the bus stop there, the convenience store and restaurant, and to the MLK Rec Center Complex.
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Stop signs exist for traffic on the trail at this intersection (and lots of other places along our trail system). This is so confusing! Where the trail crosses a road, a crosswalk always exists. So traffic on the trail has the right of way and people driving on the road should anticipate yielding. Placing a stop sign here changes that default rule with a few negative consequences. One, drivers cannot see the stop sign, and so are likely to be unaware that they have the right of way instead of the traffic in the crosswalk. Two, people riding bicycles on the trail might stop which slows down traffic (bikes run on inertia!). Finally, Florida Statutes 316.2065(9) says "A person propelling a vehicle by human power upon and along a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and along a crosswalk, has all the rights and duties applicable to a pedestrian under the same circumstances." A person walking at a crosswalk has the right of way at a crosswalk, without first stopping, even if a stop sign exists. So who supposed to stop at this stop sign? Not a person walking. Not a person using a bike. Maybe just a person on an electric scooter or something? Why are we creating these confusing situations?! Take out the stop signs so we will all know to just follow the rules instead of constantly guessing as to appropriate behavior. Safety is at stake!
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The side of this intersection (the intersection of NW 20th Terrace and W University Avenue) has a sign that says "use crosswalk" and an arrow pointing in the direction of the intersection of W University Avenue and North South Drive. This is really confusing. I don't understand what this sign means. Is it attempting to close the unmarked crosswalk to people walking north and south along 20th Terrace at this location? Is it instructing people to only walk in the crosswalk and not mid block? Is it asking people to use the signalized crosswalk at North South Drive instead of the unmarked crosswalk at 20th Terrace? None of these really make sense and I suspect that the agency that placed the sign at this location (city? county? FDOT?) did not consider the unmarked crosswalk at the intersection. Stuff like this creates confusion around traffic rules that are already not simple. We should go in the direction of easy, not hard.
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I know that someone else has posted about the fact that the motor vehicle traffic doesn't stop for the flashing yellow lights, but I need to type it out myself. They don't stop. Unacceptably dangerous. I do not think children can use this path by themselves because it requires a car brain to navigate the crossing with NW 8th Av. What really gets my goat, aside from the fear of being killed, is that the police are right there. What does it say when the police cannot be bothered? I propose retooling the "broken window" theory of neighborhood safety as the "ignored warning light." A police unit doesn't actually have civic interest as a functional priority if it cannot pay attention to the light right outside its parking lot. You could have someone answering phones from there and issuing tickets in the downtime. In fact, you could have a camera...
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Underpass feels like a dungeon! Can we clean this thing up?
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Unmarked crosswalks and on-street parking within the crosswalks. Difficult place to walk! Drivers do not yield when they cannot see person walking is inside a crosswalk!
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Unmarked crosswalks and no ADA access across 13th Street.
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University and 13th needs a BARNES DANCE!
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I am trying to mark the area where the speed sign is by B'nai Israel. I ride on the sidewalk here, after learning the scary way that this highway design is utterly inappropriate for cyclist use and that only people who haven't lived long in Gainesville are in that bike lane. I watch parents ride their bikes to and from B'nai Israel and wonder about their sanity, even though I do the same thing. I have no choice but to use this road owing to the fact that it's the only way to get to the dayschool, which is why I still am on it at all. I refuse to go to west of the dayschool, to the Millhopper shopping plaza on a bike, out of superstition that if I stay off the area I don't absolutely have to visit, I will not get hit. (I won't be "asking for it.") I estimate that Millhopper has lost a huge chunk of my money as a result of my superstitious rule. On a daily basis, I see the register on that speed sign of exactly how fast the traffic is moving. I have to wonder what the point of the sign is. To make people outside of cars feel scared? It has zero effect on drivers, for sure. It is an everyday occurrence for vehicles to travel at 50 or more miles on this road, even though people are trying to get across it on foot and on a bicycle. I never use the yellow lights near the crosswalk further west of the dayschool out of superstition, because I've had too many close calls there. Terrifying. The legal limit is 45 mph. A car can easily do 65 through that crosswalk. Once I asked a mother, once she and I caught up with each other at B'nai Israel, why she hadn't stopped for me when I was at that crosswalk with my kid on my bike. She didn't really have an answer. I don't think all drivers even see that crosswalk or understand what it means. Please note how serious this design failure is. There is no way I would willingly bicycle on a highway, much less with my children. And yet. Guess what I do almost every day? We haven't been hit because we've been lucky, not because it's safe. Change this road and save some lives. BTW, I want to acknowledge the cadaver in front of B'nai that my child and I saw from the bicycle on the way to pick up my youngest. I am very sorry for the family of that motorcyclist. It's the road. It's a nightmare.
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No bike lane on this street! When traffic is really backed up, I sometimes ride down the middle of the street, on the double yellow line, because I don't think there is enough room to be safe on the right-hand side of the motor vehicle traffic. People on the right-hand side of this road enter and exit the southbound cars for access to the water center and Westwood. Also, when I am southbound on my bike, I eventually want to make a left-hand turn onto NW 8th, and no matter how I do it, I'll have to get in front of the lanes. It seems safer to do that from the middle of the street, crossing one lane, than from the right hand edge, crossing two lanes. The lack of attention giving to cycling infrastructure in an area with a school, a park, and a water center, is indicative of the general priority given to cars and nothing more. I am not too wound up about the lack of a continuous sidewalk in front of Westwood. Taking away motor vehicle parking (from the area currently behind the creepy black fence, for example) and putting a sidewalk in would be fine, but cutting down the trees for a sidewalk would be unnecessarily destructive. I know there are other opinions on this matter of shade versus sidewalk. I think this street should probably have only one direction of motor traffic, leaving more room for a shaded sidewalk and protected bike lane.
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The roundabout here has vehicular traffic often going way too fast. Sometimes people try and pass me, which is strange because passing on a roundabout seems like a very very bad idea. Sometimes the drivers are roaring out of the neighborhood and simply expect to beat me to the roundabout, no matter how obvious it is that I am heading south, downhill, and moving apace. Speed humps out of the neighborhood would probably help.