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Statesman article lays out changes to Dean Keaton, including back-in parking and BIKE LANES!
Yesterday this story be Ben Wear outlined some of the big changes happening to Dean Keaton in the near future, namely modifying on-street parking, re-striping the existing lanes, and adding East AND West-bound bike lanes! Read the entire story for full details, but here are a few parts most pertinent to us:
...Currently, the stretch of Dean Keeton between Red River Street and San Jacinto Boulevard has six traffic lanes, a center median and free parallel parking on each side of the street.
Under the city's plan, the 2,000-foot-long stretch would instead have the reverse angle parking, bike lanes in each direction and four traffic lanes...
...It's safer for passing bicyclists. While a cyclist would lose the advantage of seeing brake lights of a car backing out, the driver in a reverse-angle parked car would be less likely to pull out and hit a bicycle...
..."bicyclists will really like it because you get that eye contact," Baker said...
Sounds like an interesting proposition, and one with some merit. Honestly I'm just excited to see some of the new Bike Plan being implemented. If this works well, who knows what else might get modified?
It would be great to one day see reverse-angle parking on a road like South Congress (between Academy Dr. & Annie St.)
sounds like it would be beneficial to everybody. I've never seen it before but as soon as I started reading about it, I could see how much sense it made.
Me too. Just thinking about it made me go "yeah, that makes sense." I hope they re-do a lot of the parking in the downtown area like Trinity, Red River, etc. in a similar fashion. They did mention that they worry about how they could implement this in a street with no median and keep people parking the correct way, but I think educational signs at the Kiosks and ticketing for parking the wrong way would do nicely, as long at the ticket wasn't ridiculous expensive.