Fixing Fell Street Kind of Broke Fell Street Yesterday
by Andrew Dalton on August 24, 2010
Yesterday morning the neighborhood’s cheapest gas station, the dastardly Arco at Fell and Divis was closed for some portion of the morning. Unfortunately for the cyclists, the Fix Fell people didn’t successfully shutdown the pelican-smothering, bike lane-trespassers just yet (the pumps reopened later in the afternoon), but more importantly I think it’s important to point out the shift in traffic patterns that came along with the closing:
Brilliant, no one in the bike lane except the SUV who is presumably just trying to hang a left. But hang on…
OK, cars weren’t exactly spilling out into the bike lane just yet at the 76 across the street, but if another horseless carriage or two pulls up for some petrol then the 24-Divisadero is going to be clipping bumpers as it crosses Fell street. Then the bike lane is really gonna be fucked. Just sayin’!
[...] Panhandler on on some changed traffic patterns when that gas station closed for other [...]
Hey there, thanks for your valiantly aggressive diction on the Fell Street Arco/BP station. I particularly enjoy the word “dastardly” and the phrase “pelican-smothering, bike-lane-trespassers.” And you’re so right about that temporary closure NOT fixing fell street – it would just shift the problem a hair. We’re actually calling for a set of several changes that would need to take place for a safe, livable Fell. They include, among other things, also closing the 76 station entrances on Fell, prohibiting left turns on Divisadero, and making a physically separated bikeway along Fell, instead of the current door-zone bike lane. Pelicans first, No compromise! -drake