Comments for “Alachua Countywide Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan/ SS4A Action Plan”
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Unmarked crosswalk between Pleasant Street and nearby amenities.
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Unmarked crosswalk between Pleasant Street and nearby amenities.
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Unmarked crosswalk between Pleasant Street and nearby amenities.
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This bus stop really needs a midblock crosswalk. I don't ever use this bus stop. But I drive here often. People run to get across the street between drivers! Can't we respect them a little more?
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Vehicles that were parked nose toward the woods back into the lane here. I am always weirded out when I make the right-hand turn from NW 8th onto this street and see that a driver is backing up into my lane space. Yikes.
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No sidewalk! How are we supposed get to Ring Park?!
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These side streets that have drivers attempting to merge on NW 34th into traffic that moves at highway speeds keep some of the drivers (1) looking only one way at the flow of motor vehicles and not expecting two-way cycle traffic on the sidewalk and (2) stopping not at the stop signs, which are well back from the sidewalk, but at the edge of NW 34th. The drivers roar up to the edge of 34th without ever looking both directions, and the reason I have not been hit by one of them is lucky timing. This area of NW 34th is inexcusably dangerous. The speed needs to be lowered through engineering means (and not just using congestion) so that no highway speeds are possible. Note that no few children cycle on this sidewalk. They are quite small and would require drivers to look extra hard for them. I can only speculate that luck is the reason that more deaths haven't ocurred here.
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Unmarked crosswalk!
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No sidewalk!
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There's no safe place to be on Buckman, waiting to get across University Ave. The bus takes up the whole lane, for instance. Stopping the right-on-red turns has helped a lot, but overall this intersection is terribly dangerous. One good thing about the long light here is that it gives cyclists time to realize that the bike lane across the intersection is obstructed with (1) Amazon vans, (2) UPS vans, (3) food delivery trucks, and/or (4) private automobiles, often without a driver. I can completely see how observers could blame some problems at this intersection on unruly cyclists and pedestrians. The truth is that this intersection was built with cars in mind, and then cyclists and pedestrians attempt to live amidst it. Get out of the car, and you'll see why the non-drivers do what they do here, against the law. They really are just trying to get across the street. I will say that when I cycle across using the pedestrian light, it seems that some pedestrians expect an all-way hold. That might be a good idea, but it will confuse the cyclists like me who are not expecting people to get in the way of the bike lane. Overall, this intersection needs attention, and not in favor of drivers. The traffic here is already so intense that sometimes the left-hand turn lane on Buckman simply backs up and chokes off University Ave.
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I haven't decided just how dangerous the right-hand turn is from NW 5th Ave to NW 22nd, but I can tell you that I feel apprehensive doing it. The sharp right angle makes it difficult to get on/stay on the sidewalk with the cargo bike, and I tend to fight it out on the road for a block or two before realizing that I have no room and would be better off getting on the sidewalk with a curb cut. Overall, the drivers seem really impatient with take-the-lane bike traffic, and yet the sidewalks have no few others also trying to use them. It's a mystery to me why this road isn't a bike boulevard. On the other hand, there's no way I'm going to wait in an endless line of motor vehicles headed north toward NW 8th Av, so during rush hours I end up getting on the sidewalk and then trying to get back off so I can get in the left-hand turn lane onto NW8th Av. I think this street needs giant signs hanging over the street reminding drivers to let cyclists have some room. (Or that being in the car is its own punishment that cannot be fixed by running over cyclists.) If this street were any wider, there would probably be a bike lane, and someone would probably have been killed. As it is, I think the speed hump at the point where I marked the street and the frequent congestion keep the traffic slow enough that people just get mad at each other--rather than outright killing people. I would be interested to know what an expert would recommend here. There's just no way that I will wait behind the cars, and yet, there isn't a lot of room to get around them. It's almost like it should be a bike-and-pedestrian only road.
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Cycling on the sidewalk on NW 16th is terrifying. The path is filled with debris on the ground and overhanging branches from above, not to mention seemingly permanent railing problems from a recent storm. The traffic moves way too fast along the east-west corridor. The drivers of cars in the north-south orientation are looking to merge into that fast-moving traffic and are not really paying attention for cyclists. If the speeds were slower, everyone would have more time to see one another and react. Overall, a disaster of a road: built like a highway, but serving cyclists and pedestrians.
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The crosswalk here is a nightmare. Traffic doesn't stop with any reliability, even if the yellow lights are blinking. Most of the time it's too awkward for me to maneuver the cargo bike to the button, so most of the time I am judging speeds and trying to make a good decision about when to cross. This street has traffic that moves at highway speeds. Strip out the highway design, and it might be easier to get traffic to stop at the crosswalk. I saw the downed crosswalk light from the hit and run. Terrifying.
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Believe it or not, there is a crosswalk here. Sure, it's faded and drivers tend to ignore it, even when a cyclist is in the middle of the street, but it's there. A crossing guard works here during school zone hours, which are short and not generally when I am there. I don't think some drivers even understand that when someone is in the middle of the street, in a crosswalk, albeit with faded paint, they have to stop. What a nightmare design. The reason more people aren't killed here is the mid-road turn lane that widens the street and gives a bit of refuge to people caught in the middle. But someday someone will be killed here. Hope it's not me or mine.
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This intersection is a nightmare. Heading south on NW 34th, the bike lane disappears. Going north on NW 34th, the traffic operates at highway speeds. I have a bus drop off situation at Westwood that happens before the school zone starts, so I really catch the speedy traffic. On NW 16th, the speed limit west of this intersection is 45 mph. (INSANE.) The intersection usually sees me trying to use the sidewalk on my bike when headed north on NW 34th to turn left onto the sidewalk of NW 16th Av, so I'm on the "wrong" side of the street in terms of the car traffic. Heading south on NW34th, I use the mid-block crosswalk on NW 34th because trying to cross at the intersection exposes me to some fantastically impatient drivers making right turns on red and running yellows and reds. It's terrifying. I wouldn't use this intersection at all, except there's no other way to get where I need to go.
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SR-26 between Melrose and Gainesville a known raceway, especially during AM and PM commutes. Commuter traffic from four counties funnels through SR-26 to Gainesville. We have recorded pages of infractions from our Melrose constituents. Please establish a regular law enforcement presence on this section of SE-26. Find us on Facebook at Florida SR-26 Corridor Safety Initiative. We are 150 strong and growing.
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All these roads need serious help around this large truck traffic area. Nonexistent bike lanes and excessive speeds make it impossible. What happened to Alachua’s rail trail
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78th ave is like a motor speedway nicknamed the Autobahn
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A walking path with some type of bridge over the drainage ditches is needed in Northwood Oaks/Pines. Numerous pipelines are exposed here where they cross the ditches and kids have been using the pipes like bridges to cross the ditches for decades. My husband grew up here and crossed the pipes as a kid, as has my oldest despite being instructed to stay out of the ditches area. Residents also enjoy walking along these areas so connectivity would be great. The kids aren't going to stop crossing the pipes, so we need to make it safe. Using the pipes as crossings is dangerous for a multitude of reasons including damage to the infrastructure, the ditches being deep and often full of water, and venomous snakes are present.
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Pedestrian access into Four Creeks Preserve would be a major benefit to the Northwood Oaks/Pines neighborhoods. The 441 pedestrian access into Four Creeks makes no sense and it also makes no sense for residents in the abutting neighborhoods to drive to a parking area for park access. The city has right of way directly adjacent to the park boundary at the end of NW 33rd St that could be used or the existing GRU easement path could be utilized if the gate were simply pushed back. If easements could be obtained, then another option could be creating a path along the drainage ditches that leads to the existing pedestrian access of NW 37th St. This really seems like a low cost / high benefit project.
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A multiuse path going through the back of the park would be helpful in creating a safe way from 53rd Ave to 39th Ave. Adding a crossing at the 39th Ave end would create a connection into the neighborhoods on the South side of 39th and allow safer access to the library and shopping in the Millhopper area. Currently there is no way to bike to the Millhopper area from the Northwood area without going down major high-traffic roads. That is shame because those areas are not really that far apart. I would use a path like this regularly.
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My understanding is that the 50mph speed limit on this street segment prohibits the installation of a crosswalk. There is no reason for this section of street to be 50mph when the adjoining sections on either end are lower speeds. Lower the speed limit and install a crosswalk to allow pedestrians and cyclists to cross into the park. Right now, people either have to go all the way up to 43rd St and back down or play Frogger and dash across the street. A crossing is badly needed here.
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The multiuse path along Millhopper Rd is badly deteriorated and hard to ride on. The path ends abruptly and transitions to a bike lane, but there isn't enough separation between the bike land and the traffic lane to feel safe. Drivers speed down this road and there is vegetation and debris in the bike path that pushes cyclists closer to the vehicular traffic. This is supposed to be a scenic route and is heavily used by cyclists but drivers are completely ignoring the speed limit here. I would like to bike down here more but I do not feel safe even in the bike lane.
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The multiuse path along 53rd Ave between NW 43rd St and NW 34th Blvd is badly deteriorated and getting dangerous to bike on. The vegetation is growing over the sides of the path narrowing the available width. This path should also extend all the way down 53rd Ave and have a crossing to create safe connectivity with the multiuse path that runs from NW 53rd Ave to NW 39th Ave.
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Cr 235 really needs bike lanes or side walk especially between241 and the distribution depots a ton of semi traffick with the road in disrepair and zero room for pedestrians