[IndianaTrails] Fwd: [ICM] 38th St. Bridge over White River

[Nathan Bilger]

I believe the Federal Highway Administration requires
that the safe accomodation of bicycles be considered
throughout the planning, design and construction of
the project.  This does not necessarily mean bike
lanes, etc, but would include bike-safe grates as a
simple, safety measure.

So if any Fed money was part of the project, it should
have included bicycle consideration and design.

I am not sure of INDOT's or Indianapolis' reg's at the
moment, but I would guess they probably include
mentions of bike consideration as well.
      -Nathan


--- "Robert J. Matter" <rjmatter at prodigy.net> wrote:

> INDOT *still* doesn't get it. -Bob Matter
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ICM] 38th St. Bridge over White River
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:28:17 -0500
> From: joshua brewster <josbrews at comcast.net>
> Reply-To: IndyCritMass at yahoogroups.com
> To: indycritmass at yahoogroups.com
> 
> I recently posted about the lack of
> pedestrian/bicycle crossing on the
> brand new bridge over White River.  It gets worse. 
> BEWARE!!!  The
> drainage grates are parallel to the direction of
> travel!!!  If you hit
> them at speed, you will either end up in the river
> or in front of a
> vehicle moving 60 MPH.  Brilliant design. 
> Obviously, no one was even
> considering bicycle traffic.  All that would have
> been required is to
> turn the grates 90 degrees.  Simply ridiculous. 
> Call the mayor and
> complain!!!!!!!
> 
> Joshua Sol