Re: DOT equals dept of transporation right? Then why always highways?

Larry G <gross.larry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 8, 8:13 pm, Rick Powell <rkpow...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 8, 4:57 pm, Larry G <gross.la...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You guys won't build a road unless it has logical termini - right?-

A state DOT won't PLAN a road that does not have logical termini, but
it might be built in segments as money becomes available.  Big
difference in the ultimate plan, and the execution of it.  It seems
the same is true of bike/ped networks, at least when they are being
paid for piecemeal by development instead of being built as an end-to-
end larger public project.  If things are being built piecemeal, one
would hope there is a regional plan in place that ultimately will
provide useful origins and destinations when everything fills in.  I
understand the desirability and frustration of trying to set up a
regional bike/ped fund to build logical segments rather than piecemeal
frontage construction...I know a community that tried to do something
similar, and they couldn't get all the developers on board, so they
went back to the piecemeal approach.

I think if there is a PLAN for a complete section of bikeway - to
provide a Point A to Point B - functionality - then it could be built
in segments - much like a beltway is, a section at a time - with a
longer term goal of functionality that accrues from the belt... but we
don't do this with bike lanes - right?

Do you know of bike plans that work like this where they've laid out
the desired end-status of lanes that actually have "logical termini"
and they are gradually filling in the segments until they complete the
whole section?

Yeah, Raleigh's nationally known bike/pedestrian trails were done like
that. They'd build one from one road to another so that people could
get some use out of it, then when money was available they'd build
another section over to another road. One of the last pieces was a
1000'+ wooden structure over a floodplain near where I live.

John Lansford, PE
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John's Shop of Wood
http://wood.jlansford.net/
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