[deleted] t1_j2z77dq wrote on January 4, 2023 at 11:33 PM

So the city's Bike Master Plan said the protected Central Avenue bike lane should stop at Baltimore Street and not connect to the majority Black neighborhoods to the north? Not sure why it shouldn't at least connect to the Monument Street bike lane, which is where everything starts to become residential again.

bmore t1_j32avvd wrote on January 5, 2023 at 3:59 PM

The second half of the installation bringing it to Monument is occurring this spring. They ran out of paving and striping season to do that part this fall.

[deleted] t1_j32hlho wrote on January 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM

Thanks. That makes more sense. The article cited by OP indicated the project was complete stopping at Baltimore Street.

bmore t1_j32y558 wrote on January 5, 2023 at 6:20 PM

The article is terrible, almost everything reported in it is wrong (the bike lane network plan was actually supposed to be completed this year, and is from 2017, for example). There's no updated or new plan since that one had basically zero progress.

sxswnxnw t1_j318vrf wrote on January 5, 2023 at 10:31 AM

I agree. But I hope they do some sort of traffic calming at Central and Fayatte and Central and Orleans because that is very stroady, and all I ever see is people booking it towards Hopkins/the Calvert Street overpass on Orleans or to President/to Hopkins on Fayette.

[deleted] t1_j31pqag wrote on January 5, 2023 at 1:30 PM

The stretch between Fayette and Orleans was much less of a highway when Sojourner Douglas College's main campus was active (the college shut down 10 years ago, and then burned multiple times, but that's another issue.) Getting that building redeveloped is the real key to slowing traffic down - the block would be a destination, not a thruway.