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Path crossing
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We look from east to west along Belleview Boulevard toward S. Fort Harrison Avenue. The sign in the picture announces the path's crossing two legs of the intersection. By riding lightly-traveled residential streets one block east of Harrison, I easily avoided the annoying and hazardous sidewalk section of the trail. Checking the Google map in the index page for this slide, you will see that all east-west streets east of Harrison dead-end against a railroad corridor -- they carry almost no traffic. When I reached Harrison, the traffic-signal actuator -- a quadrupole loop detector, which should work for bicyclists -- was not marked with a bicycle symbol indicating where to wait, and did not work for me. The detectors for Belleview Boulevard east and west trigger the signals separately, and so I had to cross on the red light once vehicles from the opposite direction had all crossed.This treatment, and of the entire segment through this area, convey the following messages:
- "Bicyclists ride on the trail; we don't concern ourselves about how they get to or from the trail."
- "We'll install detectors capable of sensing bicycles, because the rules say we must, but testing them is not on our priority list."
- "Bicyclists can become pedestrians but pedestrians can't become bicyclists, so pedestrian design wins."
- "Not in my front yard."
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