| Street | To | From | Treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waverley Avenue | Ward Street | Washington Street | Mill and Overlay |
This is a terrific opportunity to add bike lanes. Do we need to docket something? Waverly has low parking counts and high speeds, so it would need to be carefully designed (like Parker). Crossing Waverly comes up regularly in PS&T as a parent concern in walking to Ward School.
Repaving Waverly will be fantastic - much of the pavement is terrible!
I agree about low parking counts. Crossing has been addressed in the past - there are a number of crosswalks near Ward (but only static signs) and several near Bigelow (one with a flashing beacon). Unlike Parker St, Ward has a number of curves that limit visibility and might make additional crossings or bike lanes challenging.
As a cycling route - people do use Waverly, but it’s a big hill and I’m not sure whether it gets much student traffic.
more constructively-
there’s a long straight segment between Kenrick and Kenilworth, and I think it’s fairly wide. Maybe bike lanes would be good there to ease passing?
Do sharrows help or hurt with motor vehicle attention to pedestrians? That is, would they be useful near Ward as a transition after a bike lane south of Kenilworth?
The benefit of bike lanes isn’t just about bikes, but about traffic calming. The concern I hear most about Waverly is speed
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Possibly it doesn’t get much bike use because parents don’t want their young kids biking to Burr when there are no bike lanes. We have good friends who lived on Comm Ave and they wanted their (Burr) son to bike to school but there were no bike lanes so he wasn’t allowed. Of course the mom said to me by the time bike lanes are added, he will be well out of elementary school by then. (And he is.)