If you think the Cascade Bicycle Club didn’t stack this poll with people voting that don’t live anywhere near the area, I’ve got a bridge, a road, and a national monument to sell you.

That’s right. We cyclists have nothing better to do than stack a poll on a neighborhood website. You got us genius.

An almost identical configuration has been in place on Phinney and Greenwood Avenues North for a number of years, and it has actually improved the traffic-handling capacity of the street. The center lanes on the old four-lane configuration were mostly used as left-turn lanes anyway, and now we have a dedicated left-turn lane, and a through lane in which you don’t have to worry about drivers suddenly changing lanes because they got stuck behind someone who didn’t signal their left turn until eight feet before they made it. It also tends to keep speeds closer to the legal limits.

An SDOT study of Stoneway seems to confirm this. (I don’t know if there ever were studies of Phinney/Greenwood.) It does work well.

Thanks for having this survey!

And thanks to Chairman Rasmussen for holding this hearing. Last go-round, the project was mothballed without even giving supporters the chance to make our case.

This time, let’s listen to each other and come out of here with something most people can live with. (Which reminds me: Bus riders and bikers, get involved in your neighborhood associations, or you will suffer the consequences later.)

My bottom line is that the speeding has to stop. This is a school zone, whether it is marked as such or not. Notice that the proposal doesn’t actually lower the speed limit.

Pedestrian safety and cyclist safety comes before the right of people to drive in front of a school as if the road is a freeway.

Yes, this poll was definitely ‘stacked’ by the Cascade Bike Club and by other bikers. I’m a serious biker myself but I don’t ride on dangerous streets, which is precisely what Nickerson is, and will be even with a new bike lane.

Grr. I don’t understand the opposition to this.

I have seen lots of studies that show that this is good for everyone, and doesn’t increase traffic.

I have seen NO data indicating that this will cause more congestion. Just a lot of uninformed complaining.

Show me the data!

Considering the bottleneck created at the lights just before and after the Fremont bridge, I also can’t imagine how this will cause congestion. If anything, it would help the bottleneck, right?

I’ve been more conscious of my speed when driving on Nickerson over the past couple weeks. I found myself going 35 MPH and even that was too slow for everyone. Other cars were tailgating me and passing me right and left.

Again, as both a driver and a cyclist, I welcome intelligent debate. However, comments like Blackjack’s simply plant me even more firmly on the side of these changes. I have to laugh at the idea of cyclists stacking the poll. It was an unscientific poll conducted by a neighborhood blog. What good would stacking do? I would hope the city wouldn’t take the results of this poll into consideration either way.

Oh well, I’ll just go around via queen anne. I am sure they will enjoy the extra traffic in their neighborhood.

The proposal envisions eastbound bikes riding in the same lane as all eastbound car traffic — doesn’t sound very safe to me!
Dump the bike lane/sharrows and direct the bikes to the South Ship Canal Trail half a block away where there are no cars at all on the path.

Great idea! Oh, that’s right, the Ship Canal Trail deadends and I have to go up onto Nickerson in order to get to Magnolia. Damn, I thought Mondoman was on to something.

@robinfairchild:
As a “serious biker” where do you ride? Please tell me the safe streets you use.
I want to ride with you on safe streets. Especially if the safe streets go to my work, or the store, or to my kids school.

I thought in a democracy the majority opinion wins…those against outweigh those for.

So why is this moving forward?

Bikes and cars don’t mix….bikers need their own pathways. But certainly not at the expense of our existing traffic infrastructure.

Great info and right to the point. I am not sure if this is actually the best place to ask but do you people have any ideea where to employ some professional writers? Thanks

While I was reading these article I unawares felt that I absolutely understand the topic of this article and writer has written only for me.