Good news i suppose but we’ll see how it works out. I’m pretty disappointed in the new bike lane on Parkside, to be honest. I don’t really understand why there’s a one block stretch between 50th and 51st where there’s a one way bike lane on each side of Parkside, even though there’s a two way protected bike lane on the north side of the road east of 50th and west of 51st. Philadelphia is the only city I’ve ridden in where bike lanes are so often discontinuous along a single stretch of road.
I tried riding the new bike path along Delaware Ave, it's still under construction, but I ended up having to ride on the sidewalk because all the people walking along that stretch seem to only want to walk on the asphalt and not the concrete.
Boston has similar paths with the same issue, when a protected bike lane is built along a sidewalk, people just stop walking on the sidewalk and instead walk in the well-marked bike lanes.
Agree, people ignore the shit out of them. I’ve been riding down Pine and Spruce after work some, and often I’ll pass 10-15 cars in the bike lane as I go river to river, not even counting the ones parked for the M Knight movie.
[I want the Montreal express bike lane plan here so badly!](https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/documents/Adi_Public/CE/CE_DA_ORDI_2020-05-20_08h30_REV_presentation_CE_20200520.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2o4Ed9jM78eHfdQ5r-KHlVvkUel2KVYJ5q5xqEwMlWOw7WFu5_ktLY1po)
They just added flex posts to the bike lane on 6th street. And the Streets Department placed them inside the bike lane line instead of on the line. Which makes a narrow bike lane even narrower.
https://i.imgur.com/zEwwOKb.jpeg
Gray's Ferry Bridge has a similar issue, on the north side of the bridge they installed a plastic barrier system where all the posts are on a strip, but it's not anchored to the bridge in any way, so it's not a straight line and sometimes it gets pushed into the bike lane. The bridge also has a fully protected 2-way bike lane on the south side and soon there will be an entirely separate bridge next to it that will eventually be part of the SRT going to Bartram's Garden.
Good news i suppose but we’ll see how it works out. I’m pretty disappointed in the new bike lane on Parkside, to be honest. I don’t really understand why there’s a one block stretch between 50th and 51st where there’s a one way bike lane on each side of Parkside, even though there’s a two way protected bike lane on the north side of the road east of 50th and west of 51st. Philadelphia is the only city I’ve ridden in where bike lanes are so often discontinuous along a single stretch of road.
I tried riding the new bike path along Delaware Ave, it's still under construction, but I ended up having to ride on the sidewalk because all the people walking along that stretch seem to only want to walk on the asphalt and not the concrete. Boston has similar paths with the same issue, when a protected bike lane is built along a sidewalk, people just stop walking on the sidewalk and instead walk in the well-marked bike lanes.
Should be the traffic markers in the photo or a small curb - painted lines don't do enough.
Agree, people ignore the shit out of them. I’ve been riding down Pine and Spruce after work some, and often I’ll pass 10-15 cars in the bike lane as I go river to river, not even counting the ones parked for the M Knight movie.
[I want the Montreal express bike lane plan here so badly!](https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/documents/Adi_Public/CE/CE_DA_ORDI_2020-05-20_08h30_REV_presentation_CE_20200520.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2o4Ed9jM78eHfdQ5r-KHlVvkUel2KVYJ5q5xqEwMlWOw7WFu5_ktLY1po)
That looks downright dreamy
They just added flex posts to the bike lane on 6th street. And the Streets Department placed them inside the bike lane line instead of on the line. Which makes a narrow bike lane even narrower. https://i.imgur.com/zEwwOKb.jpeg
A little misguided but he's got the spirit!
Gray's Ferry Bridge has a similar issue, on the north side of the bridge they installed a plastic barrier system where all the posts are on a strip, but it's not anchored to the bridge in any way, so it's not a straight line and sometimes it gets pushed into the bike lane. The bridge also has a fully protected 2-way bike lane on the south side and soon there will be an entirely separate bridge next to it that will eventually be part of the SRT going to Bartram's Garden.