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We Were Promised Bike Lanes Open

1260-1390 Park St Hartford, CT Show on Map Hide Map
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294045

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Frog Hollow

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Residents were told that the reconfiguration of the Park Street streetscape would include well-defined bike lanes. Cool. It appeared that these were lined, with a nice buffer zone so that cyclists could ride safer. There were some problems with alignment. Then, the bumpouts near the Save-a-lot plaza meant that the bicycle lane abruptly ended.

It gets more peculiar.

Since the creation of the ridiculous small building close to Park Street, cars have been parking in what many residents were led to believe was in fact a bike lane.

Granted, nobody got around to painting markings to indicate that this would be a bike lane, but why would there be on-street parking here when there is ample parking in the existing lot? Seriously. The lot is never more than half-full.

I'd appreciate if someone could look into what the heck is up with this. Bad enough that the busway is trying to impede access for cyclists going north-south...now we gotta worry about our east-west travel too.


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