All it needs is a coat of yellow paint and we could have the yellow brick road.
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Just wait until pollen season.
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Saw this and thought some in this thread might want a quick read: Bostonians Wanted More Bike Lanes: Now They Have Them, and Traffic Is Down
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Dropping this YouTube video here. City council work session today with a presentation of the progress on the Triangle Bikeway from Raleigh to RTP and then onto Chapel Hill, with hopes for construction of phase 1 from Raleigh to RTP in 2030. 
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The Durham and Orange Co. portion is on hold. The public engagement period is between Jan. 21st - Feb. 24th. Iâll post the survey when the time comes.
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The Survey is now available 
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Project to add concrete buffers to West and Harrington St bike lanes, along with intersection improvements to Peace/West and Peace/Harrington.
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I believe that there are raised crosswalks planned for this area too. I remember seeing a presentation about the city having 13 planned safety design enhancements (raised crosswalks and extended curbs, etc.).
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This is absolutely phenomenal news.
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The city installed the S State St cycle track 2-3 weeks ago. Had been planned for a long time. My pics are from 3/6. Itâs great, but I do hope they extend it north from Peterson St eventually. They opted for speed cushions between Peterson and Bragg instead but easily could have had both. I ride this portion of State St multiple times per week on ER loops, so Iâm loving the improvements.
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Absolutely phenomenal. That project has been in the works for quite some time. I believe the Faircloth Rd. cycle track is next up.
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There is a âDowntown Mobility Projects Open Houseâ at Chavis today from 4:30-6:30pm. I canât go, but if someone does make it down there I would be interested to hear about it
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The Downtown Mobility Open House was fairly standard in terms of the city getting feedback on some of the proposed projects in the downtown core. I usually have to temper my expectations as the reality of these projects happening is always up in the air.
Last nightâs event focused on Morgan Street (from Hillsborough to Glenwood), Lenoir (from West St to East St), and Peace St (from Person to Glenwood). Three very vital east to west connectors that are sorely needing additional connectivity or upgrades. The team is down to two design options for each street mostly involving a cycle track on the north or south side of the street. It was nice to see the projects included cycle tracks in the design along with them all being protected bike lanes (with either flex posts or concrete delineators).
The biggest factor in making these projects becoming a reality is actually getting funding for them, so constant encouragement and nudging to our city councilors in funding the Big Jump (where these projects are included) is vital.
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If folks are interested, the depictions of the connector concepts are at this online survey as well:
Downtown Mobility - Preliminary Design Survey - PublicInput
I personally really like the cycle tracks compared to âone lane in each directionâ - and LOVE the inclusion of concrete buffers in addition to flexiposts. Peace should be the priority, and they need to get the intersections right so that bikers can get to destinations on the other side of the road safely (two-point turn boxes at signals being the best option).
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There will be a ~$200M housing and transportation bond referendum in November with a large portion of it earmarked for these Big Jump projects.
I am a peripheral part of the consultantâs project team but attended the Open House as a resident of DT Raleigh. Many of the concepts were developed trying to maximize bike safety but anticipating that there would be a lot of pushback against taking parking away. However, there was a lot of feedback last night from people saying that they didnât care if street parking was taken away, especially if it meant they didnât have to awkwardly cross the street because a 2-way cycle track had to switch sides for some reason or another.
The designs are very much not set in stone at this point, thereâs a really good chance of this getting funded, and the city is pushing them to get done as quickly as possible (50 miles of new and improved bike lanes in 5 years), so it is very impactful to participate in the public engagement for these projects.
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Iâm surprised thereâs not more discussion on walking. For sure biking on Peace can be tough, but the walking experience on Peace between Glenwood and Seaboard has always felt like one of the more dangerous and unpleasant experiences. There are long stretches of intersection to cross, the sidewalks themselves can get very narrow, and thereâs no vegetation anywhere.
In my opinion it would be a huge missed opportunity to redesign Peace Street, yet still have an unpleasant pedestrian connector here. Itâs unlikely there would be another redesign any time soon.
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both cycling and walking along Peace St could use some serious improvements.
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We are hyper focused on getting people around in this city by some sort of wheels: Cars, busses, bicycles, scooters, etc., but how about we focus on needing wheels less often by getting to where we need to go more often by foot in compact, walkable neighborhoods with more resources for daily living?
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Yeah, I think part of the reason for this is that by putting a protected bike lane between the sidewalk and the street inherently moves cars away from peds, but that definitely doesnât change the fact that most of Peace is just a concrete hellscape thatâs hostile to any human existing outside of an air-conditioned metal box.
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