West on Steele under 101

Video of me going on Lewis/Steele/Guerneville under 101, starting at Mendocino Ave and ending a little after going over the railroad tracks. If there was a bicycle/pedestrian bridge over 101 at Elliot or Jennings I wouldn't have to go this route to get where I was going.

Things to note:
1:25: bike lane vanishes
3:28: car passes a bit close
4:34: about 3 cars run the red light
4:48: getting onto Guerneville instead of Steele is somewhat harrowing
5:18: bike lane returns
5:25: I'm actually trying to get over to the left here, but a car is hanging off my left side making that difficult (they end up making a right)

overall: traffic makes it unpleasant, but traffic is actually often quite a bit heavier through here.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• bicycle
• SantaRosa
• safety
• BikePedestrianBridgeOver101

[LLRobinett]

For a supposldly "green" area of California, being part of Ectopia essentially, I noticed very few buses and I agree I would not want to walk it, bike it or ride a motorized scooter such as disabled people use. That Y intersection was difficult for drivers also. I suspect the cars going through the red light were already committed to a turn and did not have time to complete it. It is a kludge designed by primates. Stupid human primates.

[falschfreiheit]

@LLRobinett If you carefully watch, the last car doing that turn came up to the light the same time as a white truck in the other turn lane, except the white truck stops and the white sedan keeps going.. You're probably right about the other cars going through after the light is green (maybe light for turn doesn't stay yellow long enough?), but that last car definitely ran the red. Probably figured it'd be okay because they were close enough behind other cars.

[Shatter415]

That area is bad enough in a car, worse on a motorcycle, bad for bicycles, crap for pedestrians. The only benefit of a bicycle is you can hop into cross walks fast.

The entire layout is a kludge designed by primates.

Ped/BBike crossing over 101 to the Junior College makes sense. Don't expect anything until after it's widened, and then it'll be another 20 years after that.

[falschfreiheit]

@Shatter415 A Ped/BBike crossing over 101 to the JC just got approved by city council. (final design, funding's all there, etc). There's political games going on with city council making it look like it'll go away next Tuesday with the new city council.

[Dominipater]

OK....So the car squeezed you a bit there with that truck. Not much else going on here. The intersection is ominous, yes.

[Shatter415]

That area is bad enough in a car, worse on a motorcycle, bad for bicycles, crap for pedestrians. The only benefit of a bicycle is you can hop into cross walks fast.

The entire layout is a kludge designed by primates.