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Bike lane design prize?
Can we give a special prize to the designer of this bike lane? (It's
a T intersection.) http://bit.ly/lCPvBi - Frank Krygowski |
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Bike lane design prize?
Per Frank Krygowski:
http://bit.ly/lCPvBi Can anybody explain why the street view pix in the above link are so much better than the street view pix in GoogleEarth for the same place? -- PeteCresswell |
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Bike lane design prize?
Per (PeteCresswell):
Can anybody explain why the street view pix in the above link are so much better than the street view pix in GoogleEarth for the same place? I'm thinking it has something to do with GoogleEarth's zoomability. Here's a GoogleMap screen shot: http://tinyurl.com/3mww7o6 Here is the same view via GoogleEarth: http://tinyurl.com/3bxs7sh different pics taken at a different time. But if I zoom out, I get the same pics as GoogleMaps - albeit still at somewhat-reduced clarity: http://tinyurl.com/442bdp3 -- PeteCresswell |
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On 6/15/2011 1:45 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per (PeteCresswell): Can anybody explain why the street view pix in the above link are so much better than the street view pix in GoogleEarth for the same place? I'm thinking it has something to do with GoogleEarth's zoomability. Here's a GoogleMap screen shot: http://tinyurl.com/3mww7o6 Here is the same view via GoogleEarth: http://tinyurl.com/3bxs7sh different pics taken at a different time. But if I zoom out, I get the same pics as GoogleMaps - albeit still at somewhat-reduced clarity: http://tinyurl.com/442bdp3 Hard to say. The pic that you linked for Google earth looks like it's under water to me. There is a "wave" across the bottom. |
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Bike lane design prize?
Florida new construction from Chiles' administration on requiring
local conformity to reason, inteligence, sanity does that and I won't ride it given the overwhelming percentage of drunks and subhumans. Maybe a Fed design..... |
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Bike lane design prize?
"Frank Krygowski" wrote in message ... Can we give a special prize to the designer of this bike lane? (It's a T intersection.) http://bit.ly/lCPvBi - Frank Krygowski There is something like that going west on sand hill road in palo alto as a rider approaches the hwy 280 ramp. Convient for a cyclist, to set up the ride over the overpass, it gives cars room for bikes that are present in the lane. Cars can go either way, to hwy 280, or continue on sand hill road. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...00857&t=h&z=20 |
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Bike lane design prize?
NEVER SAW those lanes used. NOT ! . So much for highway engineering.
Say where's our highway engineering expert ? Having dinner ? |
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Bike lane design prize?
Frank Krygowski wrote:
Can we give a special prize to the designer of this bike lane? *(It's a T intersection.) http://bit.ly/lCPvBi The one I think deserves a prize is one I pass every day on the way to work. It's a _one half block_ long bike lane on Comal Street in Austin, starting at 4th Street and continuing a couple of hundred feet until it ends at the alley between 4th and 5th Streets. http://preview.tinyurl.com/comal-5th If you zoom in enough or go to Street View, you can see the bike lane markings. There's street parking where the bike lane would be south and north of this half block stretch, and at 5th and Comal there is a two-way bottleneck to liven things up a bit. I have often wondered why anyone bothered to place the stripes and signs for a bike lane there, but maybe it was the easiest way to institute a no parking zone. Chalo |
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On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:05:58 -0700 (PDT), Chalo
wrote: The one I think deserves a prize is one I pass every day on the way to work. It's a _one half block_ long bike lane on Comal Street in Austin, starting at 4th Street and continuing a couple of hundred feet until it ends at the alley between 4th and 5th Streets. http://preview.tinyurl.com/comal-5th If you zoom in enough or go to Street View, you can see the bike lane markings. There's street parking where the bike lane would be south and north of this half block stretch, and at 5th and Comal there is a two-way bottleneck to liven things up a bit. I have often wondered why anyone bothered to place the stripes and signs for a bike lane there, but maybe it was the easiest way to institute a no parking zone. If you move the mouse over the "Earth" icon in the upper right, pick "more", select "bicycling", and unselect "45 degrees", it shows the bike lanes in bright green, along with some others (E. 5th St). Green and black I presume are bicycle friendly roadways. It's clearer if you click on "map" instead of "Earth". It's definitely not a continuous bike path, but no worse than some others I've seen. Hmmm... fairly close to the Texas State Cemetary. Very convenient. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
Chalo wrote: http://preview.tinyurl.com/comal-5th If you move the mouse over the "Earth" icon in the upper right, pick "more", select "bicycling", and unselect "45 degrees", it shows the bike lanes in bright green, along with some others (E. 5th St). * Interesting; I hadn't been aware of either of those enhancements to Google Maps. I wonder why it decided to turn on "45 degrees"? Funny that the stretch of E. 5th between Comal and Chicon gets designated as a bike lane, when there's no bike lane there. It's a very narrow roadway at that point, and quite rippled from shifting soil under the roadbed. There are no lane markings there at all. Green and black I presume are bicycle friendly roadways. * It's clearer if you click on "map" instead of "Earth". *It's definitely not a continuous bike path, but no worse than some others I've seen. The whole area is pretty bike-friendly-- thanks to narrow streets, low speeds, lots of mixed use with housing as part of the mix, and relatively considerate drivers in this part of town. Hmmm... fairly close to the Texas State Cemetary. *Very convenient. It's a well-kept cemetery and a nice way to reduce the maximum slope going north when the gates are open. (I sometimes ride heavy Austin Bike Zoo contraptions up that grade.) It had fallen into disrepair a few years ago because there was no funding to maintain it. Then a state legislator had the idea to designate the path through there as a state highway, so they can use highway funds to keep it up. The cemetery often has a living state trooper lurking in there now, too. It's funny to me that there can be the political will to make the State Cemetery officially a highway (when it isn't used for transportation), but bicycle facilities that serve a lot of folks' transportation needs are not eligible for that money. Chalo |
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