tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post2680889989073420557..comments2024-03-17T20:47:31.628-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: The New Bark Mulch Setback and the Old High Street BypassSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-43883642509147687012014-12-30T12:26:27.632-08:002014-12-30T12:26:27.632-08:00RE: High Street, high speeds, and hopping the cres...RE: High Street, high speeds, and hopping the crest of the hill. <br /><br />From the Statesman today:<br /><br />"A car crash on High Street near Oak Street SE caused one vehicle to go over an embankment and into a ditch Tuesday morning.<br /><br />Just before 7 a.m., a 2007 Subaru Forester driven by Jean Marie Rover, 70, of Salem, was northbound on High Street when Rover slowed to make a turn, said Lt. Jim Aguilar of Salem Police.<br /><br />The vehicle behind Rover, a 2006 Honda Pilot driven by Zane Hylton, 28, of Salem, rear-ended the Subaru and sent it over an embankment.<br /><br />Salem Police officers responded to the scene and closed High Street to traffic between Oak and Mill streets. A tow truck removed the vehicle from the ditch and both drivers remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation, police said.<br /><br />Aguilar said that both drivers were wearing seatbelts and neither suffered injuries. Hylton was cited for following too closely."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-81930101255408265382014-10-31T09:02:36.670-07:002014-10-31T09:02:36.670-07:00I agree wholeheartedly regarding our societal inte...I agree wholeheartedly regarding our societal interpretation of safety and prioritizing speed.<br /><br />I should mention that most of the time, the City prefers to keep its utilities in the public right of way. It's PGE and others that do the opposite.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454018177008925205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-89556233572854038782014-10-30T12:20:59.506-07:002014-10-30T12:20:59.506-07:00re: "vision clearance triangles"
(Thank...re: "vision clearance triangles"<br /><br />(Thanks for the comment and info, btw!)<br /><br />I suspect this comes from letting excessively high design speeds for turning movements drive a "need" for larger sight triangles.<br /><br />This should be regarded as bass-ackwards!<br /><br />A desire for more a more walking-friendly environment with lower turning speeds should drive acceptance of shorter sight triangles.<br /><br />The engineers may say we need longer clearances to make the intersections safe, but this engineers forgiveness for higher speeds into the intersections and in the end makes them less safe and inviting.<br /><br />We should follow older districts and older buildings that have the shorter sight triangles!<br /><br />As for the utilities - yeah, that makes sense, and I forget about them. I wonder how this is handled elsewhere.Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-55979199026090591132014-10-29T21:24:13.815-07:002014-10-29T21:24:13.815-07:00Thanks for blogging about High St. I ride my bike ...Thanks for blogging about High St. I ride my bike from my house near South High back and forth to downtown all the time. Coming home is really difficult with no bike lanes on Mission or High. Going south on High past the park you have to weave in and out of parked cars and cars headed south often want to pass you if they can avoid cars headed north. It's a bad accident waiting to happen. Maybe it's time to eliminate all street parking on High Street. That would help.Jim Scheppkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04077003905171156283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-33282260236807310742014-10-29T14:53:34.287-07:002014-10-29T14:53:34.287-07:00High St. bypass:
When going south to get to Comme...High St. bypass:<br /><br />When going south to get to Commercial you need to fight your way across Liberty to the other side of the couplet to get to S. Commercial. Many factors limit access to S. Commercial: the civic center superblock, poor connectivity of the street grid, signals that prioritize northbound traffic on Liberty, and the perils of crossing three lanes of traffic on Liberty at a non-signalized intersection. All these unintended consequences of the one-way couplet make High St. much more user friendly.<br /><br />Curtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-56610465450714967042014-10-29T13:54:10.364-07:002014-10-29T13:54:10.364-07:00Hey - a post I can comment on! The City has minim...Hey - a post I can comment on! The City has minimum setbacks coupled with minimum landscape requirements. We try to use these areas for bio-swales when possible, but for a myriad of reasons, they rarely survive the design phase. The final reason would be vision clearance triangles - to make intersections safe - buildings are pushed back into the site. Sometimes other issues like topography come into play as well. Additionally, in many locations, the City has utilities running through these areas - so nothing other than bark mulch!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09454018177008925205noreply@blogger.com