Originally Posted by
79pmooney
...(None of that stuff was there when they paved that lowered bike path. It is not like they had to work around existing contingencies.)
disagree. there was ALREADY a paved surface there, around 4" below the sidewalk, and sloped towards the gutter. the entire project is working around existing conditions, in what is presumably a very old high street.
you can even see in the before photo (on the right) that some of the curbs were ALREADY only 2 or so inches high. were pedestrians tripping over those too?
a large part of the subtext of articles like this is anti-cyclist bias : HEY LOOK WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY FOR ONLY A MINORITY OF PEOPLE AND THEY STILL DON'T EVEN LIKE/APPRECIATE IT.