Wazee slalom course?
04-16-12, 01:01 PM
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Wazee slalom course?
There's an orgainzation called Living City Block that has a project underway in Denver's LoDo neighborhood. Kinda interesting project, but this post isn't directly about them. There's a rendering on their project webpage showing Wazee St. with some rather alarming bike infrastructure:
Google street view doesn't show anything like this, but the title of the drawing is "Wazee 2012" so I'm wondering if it exists now or will soon. I don't mind the parked-car buffer, but the zig-zags are ridiculous. Is this in fact what Wazee looks like now? Is this sort of thing starting to appear in Denver?
Moved away a few years ago, but I like to keep up with the Denver bike news.
Google street view doesn't show anything like this, but the title of the drawing is "Wazee 2012" so I'm wondering if it exists now or will soon. I don't mind the parked-car buffer, but the zig-zags are ridiculous. Is this in fact what Wazee looks like now? Is this sort of thing starting to appear in Denver?
Moved away a few years ago, but I like to keep up with the Denver bike news.
04-16-12, 04:27 PM
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It doesn't look too much like that right now. Check out google map street view for something more accurate.
I suppose there are no easy answers, but what's also concerning is putting the bike lane in between peds and parked cars. But if that's what a developer (with deep pockets) wants, then that's what will most likely happen.
Already too many drunk, midwestern frat types in LoDo anyway, so I just stay away from it. I've only been here for a few years and it's becoming less and less like CO and more and more like the midwest. The only cool neighborhoods left are Cap Hill/City Park, Colfax and maybe Baker or Sunnyside/Berkeley. Even lower/east Highland is being over ran people who want another sterile, lame, Wash Park type of neighborhood.
I suppose there are no easy answers, but what's also concerning is putting the bike lane in between peds and parked cars. But if that's what a developer (with deep pockets) wants, then that's what will most likely happen.
Already too many drunk, midwestern frat types in LoDo anyway, so I just stay away from it. I've only been here for a few years and it's becoming less and less like CO and more and more like the midwest. The only cool neighborhoods left are Cap Hill/City Park, Colfax and maybe Baker or Sunnyside/Berkeley. Even lower/east Highland is being over ran people who want another sterile, lame, Wash Park type of neighborhood.
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That's quite concerning. I'm surprised I haven't seen that before.
I have complete confidence that Denver Public Works aren't stupid enough to build infrastructure like that.
Wazee St right now is nothing like that. Just a two way street, yellow strip down the center and on street parking on both sides. It is actually quite narrow and traffic moves slowly. It is very bikeable.
I have complete confidence that Denver Public Works aren't stupid enough to build infrastructure like that.
Wazee St right now is nothing like that. Just a two way street, yellow strip down the center and on street parking on both sides. It is actually quite narrow and traffic moves slowly. It is very bikeable.
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That's quite concerning. I'm surprised I haven't seen that before.
I have complete confidence that Denver Public Works aren't stupid enough to build infrastructure like that.
Wazee St right now is nothing like that. Just a two way street, yellow strip down the center and on street parking on both sides. It is actually quite narrow and traffic moves slowly. It is very bikeable.
I have complete confidence that Denver Public Works aren't stupid enough to build infrastructure like that.
Wazee St right now is nothing like that. Just a two way street, yellow strip down the center and on street parking on both sides. It is actually quite narrow and traffic moves slowly. It is very bikeable.
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