http://www.ydr.com/local/ci_28713945/projects-address-york-county-road-congestion-underway-o'

At the very end of the article:

The City of York has installed bike lanes and is working on creating more of them.

If I weren't morally opposed to the text-ese "OMG" I'd post "OMG".

I'm of such vintage that I can remember King Street being one way west from Harrison Street to Richland Ave; and yes, the "welcome to York" for eastbound traffic at Richland was a trio of "Do Not Enter" signs.  (Funny, Gordon Frierich et al have NEVER complained about the fairly newly erected signs on Newlin a.k.a. the York Hospital Main Drive at Rathton---money talks, or silences lips)

I'm also of such vintage that I can also remember King St being a crazy Alice-in-blunderland of one-way west from Harrison to Broad, then one-way east from Broad to Pershing, then one-way west from Pershing to Richland, courtesy of the Marshall Plan (Mayor Elizabeth "Betty" Marshall) to constrict Market Street by way of the serpentine between Pershing and Duke.  Her honor felt that additional eastbound lanes would be needed.   So King St retained its trio of "Do Not Enter" signs at Richland; supplemented by opposing trios of such signs at Broad (yes, that meant that no turns at all were permitted from Broad to King in those days.

Then sanity returned under the Althaus, Robertson, and Brenner administrations when King St. became one way east from city line to city line.  Now the only funky intersection was King/1st Ave and Harrison, where "Do Not Enter" signs glared at each other from opposite directions. (Funny, Gordon Frierich et al have NEVER complained about the fairly newly erected signs on 1st Ave or 3rd Ave enteting "the Garden"---money talks, or silences lip AGAIN)

And now under "Li'l Kim" Bracey King Street is once again the subject of experimenation which is positively Mengelian.  Stll one-way east, the right lane ends at Belvidere to make way for a "bike lane" which receives almost no use.  The congestion between Pershing and Queen is terrible; the energy wasted by vehicles sitting through light cycles erases any "savings" by bikes (did I say before, non-use) a hundrefold, or more. 

The useless (as in unused) bike lane finaoy drops off at Broad Street--beyond the area of congestion--only to resume in an even more insidious form at the beginning of the Wellington "projects" when a right hand "bike lane" reappears, matched this time with a "counterflow" bike lane to the left.  Vehicles "parked" to the left must fit between the traffic lane and the "counterflow bike lane".  Get it? 

Now what is it with female Mayors and the emasculation (or at least severe contriction) of King Street?
 

Last edited by Tarnation (8/27/2015 9:12 pm)