Comments for “Alachua Countywide Bicycle & Pedestrian Master Plan/ SS4A Action Plan”
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There's no pedestrian crosswalks from Sante fe to I75. I see high schoolers running across 4 lane highway all the time
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The entrance to Fletchers Mill needs a light! It is dangerous to turn out of here. Too many accidents!
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The area that merges into one lane going west on SW Williston Rd is incredibly dangerous. Drivers are aggressive and driving at faster speeds when attempting to get in front of a long line of traffic prior to the end of the merge lane. More than once I have seen cars aggressively ride side by side on the one-lane road and large bike lane when one of the vehicles was unsuccessful at in their aggressive attempt to merge when the merge lane ends.
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Bike path/shared use trail - absolutely no shade
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The light at this intersection does not stay green long enough to allow much traffic coming off SW 62nd Ave to turn left onto SW Williston Rd. In the mornings going to work as well as from around 5-6 PM, you can sometimes sit through 4 long light cycles before being able to
turn left onto SW Williston Rd. It does seem this issue has improved the last couple of months with the light staying green a bit longer than before, but it could still use some further adjustments. Additionally, I fear this problem could worsen as neighborhoods continue to grow and SW 62nd Ave as well as SW Williston Rd remain 2-lane roads. -
Neighborhood is used by many to pass through to Newberry. Would highly benefit from bikes lanes or sidewalks
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My child recently started at
Kanapaha and I avoid taking him to school because traffic is chaotic and dangerous between Archer and Haile. There are no signals for cars, no crossings for pedestrians, and no penalty for people breaking traffic laws. The crossing guard in front of Kanapaha only directs traffic when children cross. Turning left out of there during peak hours is impossible to do safely. I even see school buses taking their chances darting in front of oncoming cars. I turn right and make a U-turn in the Wiles parking lot just to get a left turn light. At the intersection for Tower Rd, turning left onto Archer, people drive aggressively and impulsively because there are few clear options. This whole area needs to be studied and improved. -
This area is growing and this road cannot handle the increasing traffic. There are sidewalks outside new neighborhoods but they don’t connect to anything. Drivers are aggressive and speed. There are a lot of children and low income folks who bike and walk in the bike lane, including at night and in areas with poor lighting. There are big curves that make all of this more dangerous. I’ve lived here for five years and I’m surprised there aren’t more accidents.
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Need lighting
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This road is dangerous to drive, walk or bike. It is in very bad shape, with potholes the entire length of the road and erosion along the sides. The road is very narrow, barely allowing 2 vehicles to safely pass but when one vehicle is large like a garbage truck or bus, a vehicle must drive off the road to pass. This creates a danger as much of the shoulder has eroded away and can cause a vehicle to lose control. Riding a bike is extremely dangerous on this road due to the poor condition of the road and the narrowness of the road not allowing drivers to safely give a cyclist a safe buffer. Walking is also dangerous as the pedestrian is forced to walk in the ditch being the road is too narrow to accommodate both pedestrian and vehicle.
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A separated bike path (multiuse path) separated from traffic connecting the main areas of Gainesville. Encourage more biking by having more separated and safer multi use paths not on major roads. Gainesville could help to reduce the ridiculous vehicle traffic problem if the current bike/multiuse paths connected the major parts of the city. Currently, it’s unsafe to bike across town due to lack of safe paths. It would be fantastic if every major road in Gainesville (13th, 34th, archer, newberry, 39th, Williston) all had separated bike paths that all connected
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Need signs that bikes may use entire lane.
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Need signs that bikes can use entire lane
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Bike lane is in terrible shape. NEEDS cleaning
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NW 6th street needs an overhaul. The lanes are narrow making it easy for drivers to cross lane lines into oncoming traffic. The sidewalks are narrow and do not support multi use traffic (bikes and pedestrians). 6th street needs a separate bike path to be able to connect to the Hawthorne from 39th avenue. I would bike to work (UF) if a safer path to get there existed. Currently, there’s too much traffic to feel safe biking to get to safer roads/paths
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Need signs reaffirming bikes can use entire traffic lane
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Need signs reaffirming bikes can use entire traffic lane
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There are no sidewalks, and it is poorly light in many parts of this neighborhood. Lighting and safe paths for pedestrians would be beneficial since there are a good number of people walking in this area.
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We need a traffic light at this neighborhood exit of Fletchers Mill. Multiple traffic accidents and fatalities have occurred here just in the last few months let alone the last few years. Please, please strongly consider this!!
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NW 78th Ave, a favorite with cyclists, needs a bike lane to CR-241.
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To fast traffic. Crashes due to dip in road that hides on coming traffic.
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There are too many crashes here, some very significant. The hill makes visibility difficult, in addition to a fairly high legal speed limit. The addition of a complex across the way has only made things more dangerous as there are fewer breaks in rush hour traffic, and it will likely only get worse.
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This intersection needs a traffic light. It is nearly impossible to see oncoming traffic, and drivers dangerously double up in the intersection daily. Multiple serious accidents in the past few months.
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The Fletcher’s Mill exit needs some sort of traffic direction at the four-way intersection when people pull out of the neighborhood. There are too many accidents/fatalities occurring. People treat Newberry Road at that section as a speedway and don’t pay attention. The residence of Fletcher‘s mill are scared to pull out of that neighborhood at any given point in the day..
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Need a traffic light at this 4-way intersection. There are too many vehicle crashes here.