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It's been awhile since the bike lanes were added to Fr. Morrissette, but nearly every day on my commute I'm still seeing drivers driving in the bike lanes and/or the parking lanes when no cars are parked there. Most are people who move over to the right long before the turn lane starts (especially outbound by Jeanne D'Arc and Wannalancit before turning right onto Cabot), but others just completely disregard the bike lanes and drive in them as if there were still two travel lanes.
I don't know what can be done regarding better traffic enforcement or some sort of barriers (there are sometimes a barrel at the very beginning of the bike lane, but they fall over or move, or cars just move over right after the barrel), but I worry it's such a safety concern. Just a matter of time before a biker gets hit. Plus, yesterday a car turned right at the proper time to turn onto Cabot and was nearly rear-ended by a car driving illegally in that lane.
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Riconosciuto City of Lowell (Utente registrato)
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Thank you for posting,
Alex, Office of CM
lva1113 (Utente registrato)
jkgavin (Utente registrato)
signe (Utente registrato)
lva1113 (Utente registrato)
It makes me feel both better and worse that others are witnessing this so frequently too! The city could make a fortune stationing a cruiser there during the morning commute and citing people.
I fear it's just a matter of time before there's a situation that forces the issue, like a vehicle crash, or worse, a bike vs vehicle crash. It's too bad due to weather here and the need for plowing that we perhaps can't do what communities in places like California can -- things like very obvious rumble strips to suggest someone is doing something wrong crossing that line, or periodic vertical markers.
CBruce (Utente registrato)
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Michael lafontaine (Utente registrato)
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Cat (Utente registrato)
I agree with Elliot that both the bike lane and parking spots are under utilized. At most I've only seen one or two cars parked along this stretch of Father Morrissette. Even with the nice weather here, I still don't see any bicyclists in the area. If they want to keep a bike lane considering it's proximity to Umass, it certainly doesn't need to be as wide as it is.
Shae (Utente registrato)