
Originally Posted by
californiagrown
^dingdingding. Juanita to Market is the commute. FYI construction just wrapped up and its fully striped and open now through finn hill. Like i said, i get avoiding catchbasin grates or limbs etc (less so manhole covers), but that is honestly rarely the case for people hugging the lane line. Its usually people grinding uphill, so i truly think it is folks just needing a line to follow with their front wheel while head-down grinding. maybe something in their brain says that the pavement edge is dangerous so they need to stay well off it, and don't realize how close they are to the vehicle lane now? IDK. And, yes the bike lane down the hill towards the river at 40+ is unsafe. That's because the speed limit is 30mph there lol, and all the roadway improvements made in the last 3 years were geared towards slowing traffic down through that corridor. I actually see way less sketchy cyclist-vehicle interactions on that stretch than i do coming down the hill on Market into downtown kirkland. I've seen a ton of crashes and near misses there over the years with 100% being the bikers fault for going way too fast (40 in a 25, cough cough), misjudging their cornering, ignoring peds in xwalks, etc. And, FWIW, the reason i post in here fairly often is because that route has been my daily commute for years and as you can attest, it is highly used for cycling... so i just see a lot of interactions. Not because im out there looking for problems and bringing it on myself with aggressive driving.
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