[BHV] Worst Traffic Calming Device

[William Lodico]

We are happily blessed with a reasonably responsive group of traffic  
engineers and transportation bureaucrats in Chemung and nearby  
counties, as well as in our DOT region, who generally listen to us.   
The occasional lapse is usually remedied pretty quickly.

I wonder what the Redwood City guys were smoking when they came up  
with this. Why not just strew the road with cinder blocks? That  
should slow 'em down, at a lot less cost then strewing the road with  
injured cyclists.

Bill Lodico

On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:00 PM, Gear-To-Go Tandems wrote:

There are worse places than Elmira to ride a bike:(

Residents on this particular road were complaining that cars were  
going too
fast, and demanded that something be done. The city, in its infamous  
wisdom,
decided that a peculiar type of "traffic calming" would be the  
answer. You
can see the results below-

http://picasaweb.google.com/ChainReactionBicycles/ 
BikeLaneDangerInRedwoodCity


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Rich Shapiro    Gear-To-Go Tandems
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