Project listed as $150,000.
Ready for construction. Stripe bicycle lanes between Braker Lane and 51st Street.
Confession. I’ve never ridden on Dessau/Cameron. Well, let me be more precise. I attempted Dessau once a little further north of Braker and promptly escaped to the sidewalk. During rush hour Dessau can be very busy and at the time I wasn’t prepared to assert my rights as a vehicle. Perhaps with bike lanes it might be easier to navigate.
I have seen a lot of bike traffic head north on Cameron off of 51st Street. Other than that I don’t know how much bike traffic this will service.
Dessau at Braker
Dessau at Dungan
Cameron at Anderson
Cameron at Hwy 290
Cameron at 51st
For a while, I rode this one as a commuter four days a week (from 51st up to Rundberg)–but it was at Oh Dark Thirty, or actually long before the sun came up most days. Without traffic, it’s a great and useful stretch of road. I think (but don’t know) that there’s at least one longstanding ACA ride that starts around there, though I don’t know where it goes from the departure point. Seems a good way to start getting out towards New Sweden and all the windswept parts out Northeast.
But in traffic, particularly in *that* kind of traffic (Ford F-650s hauling trailers stacked with earth-moving equipment, for instance), it’s no bueno. Escaping to the sidewalk (as you said) is the only real option, in my opinion.
Side note: Ken’s Tacos makes very possibly the most overstuffed breakfast tacos in the city. I mean that as a great compliment. Experience says, however, it’s not a good idea to show up there in Lycra.
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