[IndianaTrails] List Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2

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In a message dated 6/6/2007 8:34:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
list-request at indianatrails.org writes:

One simple (but rarely used) shopping center improvement that I  find  
really helps bikers & peds is to stripe the parking lots  such that  
there is a walkway down the middle of each row of cars,  with the rows 
oriented perpendicular to the building  facade..........This not only helps 
shoppers  
arriving by foot  or bike but also makes it safer for motorists to  
access their  vehicles.  
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I assume you are talking about leaving pathway space that runs between  all 
the nose-to-nose cars lined up?
 
I agree. It takes the pedestrian out of the vehicular traffic areas for  90% 
of their walk from their car to the storefront.   I have seen  this done only 
in one place here in Greenwood (Oaken Barrel Brewery's strip  center lot) and 
oddly, even there, only in one row?!?!
 
But it would be SO very helpful.  
 
But they have to be well-designed.   If the tire "bumpers"  aren't set back 
far enough, the overhang on some vehicles could intrude into  the walkway.  
Further, since drivers are not used to looking for people  in the front of their 
parking space, any overhang that happens just as a  pedestrian passes, could 
be dangerous.
 
Thanks for bringing this up.  We tried to get it in a trails  friendly 
ordinance in Greenwood. Officials pooh pooh the whole ordinance idea  for the last 3 
years, but slowly we find little pieces of it are trickling  into law.  But I 
don't think that one has yet.
 
Regards,
Don Cummings
  Past Chair, Greenwood Trails ADVISORY Board
  Current member, Greenwood Trails ADVOCACY Board
  Founder, Greater Greenwood Trails Fund at Johnson County Community  
Foundation



 



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