During 2010 Dorchester received:
1. Repainted (partial) bike lane in Franklin Park.
2. Uncompleted bike lane and sharrow on Talbot Avenue
3. Uncompleted bike lane on Columbia Road
4. Bike lane on Blue Hill from Morton to Talbot and from Columbia to Warren
5. Sharrows south of Peabody Square on Dot Ave.
This is added to American Legion Highway sharrow/lanes and lanes in Franklin Park and Old Road from 2009.
Why uncompleted? The painters ignored the engineers and didn’t put in some of the characters on Talbot Avenue. Quite a number of stretches of Columbia Road received the same treatment. We went 9 weeks of informing the city of same to finally get a notice that the painting was done for the season.
Oh yeah! And NO SIGNS!
What we missed.
1. All of Bowdoin Street was resurfaced…no lane or sharrow.
2. Park Street from Washington to Geneva was surfaced. No sharrow.
3. Melville Ave surfaced. No sharrow
4. Olney Street surfaced. No lane (by a school).
5. No progress on the “Missing link’
So show up at the Bike event on Thursday if it isn’t snowed out and ask for SIGNS to accompany all the nice new lanes around town. They can’t ticket drivers and scofflaw parkers without the right signs!
