If you drive down Cherokee Avenue in Atlanta's Grant Park neighborhood and see a car precariously balanced on two wheels atop a concrete divider, don't
This will honestly be some guys excuse to get a lifted truck. Why can’t they just put in jersey barriers like normal civil engineers. Even crazier idea, actually design bike infrastructure instead of some awkward mini barrier in the middle of a road
I ride on this street fairly often. So let me tell you from direct experience: for Atlanta, this bike infrastructure is actually pretty damn good.
Ironically, the next bike crossing over I-20 further East, at Bill Kennedy Way, has Jersey barriers and urbanists are complaining about them because they’re done wrong. GDOT refuses to anchor them into the street properly (claiming bullshit about “maintenance problems” or something), so when cars hit them they get pushed into the multi-use path.
To me, at least, jersey barriers seem like a temporary thing, something that belongs in a construction zone, but not the finished product. If I’m being nit picky, I want the separation to be low enough that a pedestrian can step over it, too.
Best case scenario is obviously grade separation and distance between cars and bikes, but in a confined space, I dont think these barriers are horrible. Maybe the best move would be full-height barriers at the ends, and these low ones in the middle?
This will honestly be some guys excuse to get a lifted truck. Why can’t they just put in jersey barriers like normal civil engineers. Even crazier idea, actually design bike infrastructure instead of some awkward mini barrier in the middle of a road
I ride on this street fairly often. So let me tell you from direct experience: for Atlanta, this bike infrastructure is actually pretty damn good.
Ironically, the next bike crossing over I-20 further East, at Bill Kennedy Way, has Jersey barriers and urbanists are complaining about them because they’re done wrong. GDOT refuses to anchor them into the street properly (claiming bullshit about “maintenance problems” or something), so when cars hit them they get pushed into the multi-use path.
Someone should tip those over the other direction, make it a problem for cars that they aren’t anchored properly.
To me, at least, jersey barriers seem like a temporary thing, something that belongs in a construction zone, but not the finished product. If I’m being nit picky, I want the separation to be low enough that a pedestrian can step over it, too.
Best case scenario is obviously grade separation and distance between cars and bikes, but in a confined space, I dont think these barriers are horrible. Maybe the best move would be full-height barriers at the ends, and these low ones in the middle?