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#1 Fort Worthology

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Posted 06 May 2014 - 01:32 PM

Hadn't expected this, but the Vickery bike lanes have been extended the whole length of the street through the main part of the Near Southside.  The new section runs from Jennings west to...Adams, or Henderson, or whatever it is where Vickery stops (the grid gets all goofy there).

 

Interesting design - combines a road diet (removing excess traffic lanes) with bike lanes on both sides, quite a bit of new angle parking on the north side, *and* said new parking is "floating" (i.e., away from the curb), with the bike lane running curbside, creating a buffered-from-traffic bike lane.  Nicely done.

 

Put another pic on this thing, whatever it is:  http://fortwortholog...oad-diet-in-our

 

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Posted 06 May 2014 - 02:40 PM

The road is much better! The sidewalks themselves could really use some work. Plant some trees at least! This is fort worth, we need the shade and clean air.

I really want to see some big developments kick off on Vickery, especially the north side of it. Such a good location with good access to downtown, south side, highways and train stations.

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Posted 06 May 2014 - 02:55 PM

I'm sure it's in the plans.  Paint & thermoplastic is cheap.  This will help Vickery quite a bit in the meantime.  They just got the Rosedale reconstruction done, and South Main is next, so that's where the "big nice sidewalks with trees and lights" money is going.


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Posted 06 May 2014 - 05:09 PM

I just drove down it. Very nice looking, the additional parking is nice and being used, there is a lot of cars outside the building being renovated. However several car are parked well into the bike lane and touching the curb.

I've noticed Hemphill between Allen and Rosedale is gettimg a nice sidewalk makeover to.

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Posted 06 May 2014 - 07:02 PM

Austin, the first thing I thought of after I saw Kevin's photograph was that the cars would pull all the way into the bike lane.  Wheelstops will cure that.



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Posted 06 May 2014 - 09:10 PM

I have confirmed that wheelstops are coming.  They're being installed by a different contractor and should be in next week (ish).


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Posted 03 June 2014 - 07:55 PM

I had the opportunity to visit the roof of the building at the corner of Vickery and Jennings today and took a quick shot of the new bike lanes on Vickery.  

 

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I finally enjoyed a bike ride in the new lanes this past weekend.  It was very nice.  The wheelstops look like wide white paint from a distance.  I think it would be fun to ride down the street in front of the parked cars while people are at the Sunday matinee at Stage West.  



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 10:39 AM

My hats off to the city for putting in these bike lanes.  I just hope motorists on a busy thoroughfare such as this use caution.



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 10:49 AM

My hope is once some development starts going in on the north side of Vickery the city will either shrink or get rid of that MASSIVE right turn yeild lane. Look at how much room that black car has.

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 10:55 AM

I believe the reason the lane is so wide is that a streetcar track also used to make the right hand turn there.  The lane had to be wide enough for a streetcar and an automobile to traverse the road.



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Posted 04 June 2014 - 11:03 AM

Well in that case, put in a streetcar! :)

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 01:27 PM

That's also why the tunnel there exists.


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Posted 04 June 2014 - 01:51 PM

I've always wondered, was it from the original system or built more recently?

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Posted 04 June 2014 - 02:13 PM

I've always wondered, was it from the original system or built more recently?

 

I seem to remember that it was a New Deal project, but could be wrong.







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