The lanes at a busy downtown intersection have been re-marked for two right hand turns lanes in one direction. Wonderful. As if it wasn't dangerous enough for pedestrians crossing the street with one right hand turn lane as inattentive and aggressive drivers make the turn without looking. Now the chances are doubled that a pedestrian will be hit by a car.
At that same intersection, two of the corner sidewalks have been completely redesigned and replaced over the last several months. About a month after all the work was completed, sections of the concrete were torn up while some kind of work was done. Don't these people communicate so that all the work could have been done at once. I guess that would have been to easy.
That same street is also having a bike lane added. It's not the usual bike lane between the curb and traffic lane. But it's being marked so that cyclists have a dedicated lane right in the middle of a traffic lane - sharing the road with vehicular traffic.
All I can say about these changes is, let the carnage begin.
