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At last Neartown zoom

District C asst Julia Retta & COH traffic safety specialistDavid Fields spoke about Abbie Kamin’s big community input to find a 1/2 dozen small safety projects that could be completed quickly to promote pedestrian mobility safety.

aA bike lane north is being promoted at this location with 100 feet of bike lane signage/ paint on Taft from this intersection.

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I drove by again.........not sure what's being built.

 

 

But I post complaint about graffiti to 3-1-1

you can see how far that got..........

85EC8030-9A1F-4A5C-A9B3-338D2BF4B997.jpegMaybe though this. Could be the beginning of the 20' designation of bike lane that Councilwoman Kamin spoke of last year.

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On 11/29/2022 at 2:46 PM, bookey23 said:

Dang, I thought they were going to start building something across the street from El Tiempo. Anyone know what's going on with that lot? They tore down a structure well over a year ago, but nothing has come of it.

It was part of the program to remove blighted buildings from the city. 
 

Does anyone know if the lots the city cleans up are owned by the city or are they owned by a private entity? 

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On 12/24/2022 at 10:36 PM, j_cuevas713 said:

Does anyone know if the lots the city cleans up are owned by the city or are they owned by a private entity? 

My understanding is, both.
The city maintains its property, and if private property becomes grossly overgrown the city (supposedly) comes in and trims the offending vegetation.
I believe they charge the landowner, either by a separate billing or adding the bill to the property taxes. 
If someone has more accurate information, feel free to correct me.

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On 12/24/2022 at 8:02 AM, trymahjong said:

Could be the beginning of the 20' designation of bike lane that Councilwoman Kamin spoke of last year.

I think you're right. The signal upgrades might be for bike detection and bike signals at this intersection. 

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1 hour ago, Justin Welling said:

I think you're right. The signal upgrades might be for bike detection and bike signals at this intersection. 

Yeah when I rode my bike home I had to hope a car would come up behind me to trigger the light because my bike couldn't do it, so I sometimes had to run the light if traffic allowed.

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1 hour ago, hindesky said:

Yeah when I rode my bike home I had to hope a car would come up behind me to trigger the light because my bike couldn't do it, so I sometimes had to run the light if traffic allowed.

"Who is that skeleton on the bike?"

"That's Hindesky, a car never came along to trigger the signals, so he never got a green light"😁

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On 12/27/2022 at 6:19 PM, Ross said:

"Who is that skeleton on the bike?"

"That's Hindesky, a car never came along to trigger the signals, so he never got a green light"😁

Back in my cross-country cycling days we used to lay our bikes down across the loop cuts in order to trigger the signal.

That probably wouldn't work these days since bicycles aren't made with much metal anymore.

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With the  new proposal for lower Westheimer to go from 4 lanes down to 3- designated bike lanes seem unlikely.


I remember, District C had a list of things that could be done low cost and  relatively quickly inside district  ..... Bike lane designation painting on Taft, was on that list--painting  15 yards north of intersection.

That seems to jive with the new signage.

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39 minutes ago, trymahjong said:

We'll, it seems silly to paint designation bike  lines further north till the parking  on east side of Taft street up to Avondale is removed---IMO parking on both sides of Taft with a bike lane would be chaos.

Yeah, I just meant painted lanes in general. No thanks. I can count on two fingers the number of comfortable painted bike lanes I've ridden in. 

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2 hours ago, trymahjong said:

The bike light crossing finally unveiled 

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I noticed them yesterday on Woodhead at Richmond and on Hawthorne at Montrose.

 

Except...they were fully synced with the car light. So I think I'll be sticking to the car lanes there. 

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2 hours ago, 004n063 said:

I noticed them yesterday on Woodhead at Richmond and on Hawthorne at Montrose.

 

Except...they were fully synced with the car light. So I think I'll be sticking to the car lanes there. 

311 the traffic signals to tell them to make the bike signals lead. I think it is up to the city to do that, and they need the public to push them to do it. Rode it the past two weekends, and the bike signals synched with the GP signals are not safe for riders. 

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