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Anyone who has walked/run/biked the creekwalk knows what a great amenity it is for the city. These same people also are well aware of what is perhaps the worst moment along the entirety of the creekwalk -- the Hiawatha Boulevard bridge across the creek/canal.
When approaching from downtown, you are enjoying the creekwalk pathway until the moment you hit Hiawatha Boulevard and are confronted with 5 lanes of traffic and an abrupt 90° turn. You are funneled onto an all-too-narrow sidewalk with absolutely no buffer between you and the speeding cars, and if you're on a bike you must dismount and take up nearly the full width of this sidewalk.
Short of building a dedicated bike/pedestrian bridge across the water, a very immediate, short-term solution for this is relatively simple: Reduce the number of vehicle lanes by one [still allowing for two in each direction] so that the southeastern lane can become a dedicated bikeway connecting the creekwalk across this bridge. The sidewalk can remain for those on foot, and the bikeway can be separated from traffic by a median for added safety. The crude drawing above depicts this change [the green strip is the bikeway] -- we should demand a solution for this stretch of the creekwalk not only for the sake of improved travel but also our safety.
When approaching from downtown, you are enjoying the creekwalk pathway until the moment you hit Hiawatha Boulevard and are confronted with 5 lanes of traffic and an abrupt 90° turn. You are funneled onto an all-too-narrow sidewalk with absolutely no buffer between you and the speeding cars, and if you're on a bike you must dismount and take up nearly the full width of this sidewalk.
Short of building a dedicated bike/pedestrian bridge across the water, a very immediate, short-term solution for this is relatively simple: Reduce the number of vehicle lanes by one [still allowing for two in each direction] so that the southeastern lane can become a dedicated bikeway connecting the creekwalk across this bridge. The sidewalk can remain for those on foot, and the bikeway can be separated from traffic by a median for added safety. The crude drawing above depicts this change [the green strip is the bikeway] -- we should demand a solution for this stretch of the creekwalk not only for the sake of improved travel but also our safety.
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