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Originally Posted by MattyC
This has probably been mentioned already but WTF is going on with Northmount Dr? First they changed all the lanes around so that there's a bus route and the rest of the lanes make no sense at all. And now they are actually taking these lanes away to give what looks like buffers to a bike lane.
I'm all well and good with bike lanes, but does there really need to be a buffer that takes up what would be an entire lane of car traffic? Couldnt a normal sized 6 inch curb be buffer enough? How can needlessly taking an entire lane of traffic away help anything?
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Northland Drive is way wider than it will ever need to be. If you include the existing bus/bike lane, there are sometimes 3 lanes in each direction. All for a road that doesn't really see a lot of traffic. Cars will still get 2 in most places, in each direction, as they do now.
I'm fine with the separated bike lanes because that road will never see enough traffic to warrant its size, and the painted bike lanes (particularly southbound) were a confusing mess for everyone.