Bicycle traffic detours in place on Broadway Bridge for two weeks

Would someone give an update as to how well this work zone detour was integrated into the adjoining bike network? [I have not had a chance to visit it yet.]

Question: How platinum was this planned work zone detour?

– Were there wider temporary ramps added to facilitate the new crossing locations?
– Was the signal timing plans of any of the adjoining intersections updated to allow for the cyclists traffic to successfully detour to the work zone ends?
– How was the advance public outreach or driver notification of the detoured bike traffic?

How about adding detour orange sharrows on the outside (#2 lane) for the side currently closed?

Better yet – would be a work zone closure of the #2 lane and rerouting the affected bike traffic to it. Yes this might affect some car capacity or access to the Lovejoy ramp…but it might be safer than adding intersection exposure time for cyclists entering the work zone and all the messy [some high speed] traffic mixing on one shared bridge path.

I rode through this intersection on Sunday and did not see any advance signs warning of the planned closure or detour work.

I rode Eastbound on the bridge this morning, and it was a little akward rolling into the green painted bikelane on the SE side of the bridge as some riders were coming right at me in the opposite direction in the bike lane. Probably better if Westbound riders use the sidewalk, as they are doing in the last picture above, though it could be a little akward as riders coming down the bridge cross from right to left to get to that bike lane.

I can’t figure out if some cyclists are supposed to be on the sidewalk between the end of the bridge and Larrabee. And who would it be, those going east or those going west? There are no signs indicating how bike traffic is supposed to flow, so folks going east usually go where they usually go, and folks going west are … confused.

I hope they closed the eastbound ramp off the bridge into the bike lane because otherwise the westbound detour traffic on the sidewalk is crossing over the eastbound traffic into the bike lane…

looks like a cluster and I would encourage everybody, not just the very experienced, to take the lane over the bridge… motor vehicles still have another lane they can use so there’s no pressure to go fast simply because motor vehicles are in a hurry…

BTW, Thanks Jonathan for reporting on this. It’s been closed for two days and I have yet to see any work being done. It’s frustrating to have the time wasted when it adds the inconvenience.

PS: I predicted that they’d need to do this routinely (add the texture to the plates) from the first time I laid eyes on them. Seems like it would have been better to have manufactured the plates with the texture already built in as part of the process rather than apply easily-weathered coating.

I’ve done the detour westbound 4 times now and it is a big PITA. I think I’m going to start just taking the lane. I don’t entirely agree with JM that that option is just for the “very experienced.” If you take the lane early so you’re visible from the outset, it shouldn’t be difficult or dangerous. I do fully expect to encounter hostility, but just requires a thick skin (which may or may not be a by-product of being “experienced.”)

Wow, I was nearly hit there twice this morning by cyclists coming the other direction and had to stop to avoid going head-on into them. Both were trying to make a pass without having looked ahead to see if I might be coming directly at them in the opposite direction. Come on, people. If you’re going to make a pass, it’s on you to do it safely.