Cycling Claremont: Seeing Green

The cynic in me says that if drivers cannot keep out of a marked bike lane (as I, yet again, saw on southbound Mills, where the driver of an unnecessarily large vehicle was unable to distinguish the width of the lane she was driving in), adding some green is unlikely to make any difference.

Then again, I say, the extra visual cue can't hurt.

Though not yet finished, this stretch of green bike lane on Towne, just below Baseline, will be the third such within our city limits. All three are at intersections that, I believe, have been identified as especially problematic. The green lane provides a connection from the Thompson Creek Trail, but also from the Webb School on the north side of Baseline to the residential areas to the south, and between residences north of Baseline and Sumner Elementary School to the south. Since, on its south end, the green lane stops at the space oddity, it certainly has the potential to give new life and purpose to that little stretch of bike path.

The combination of small things like this, as well as larger-scale improvements like the Foothill Boulevard project (set to commence soon) the city of Claremont continues to show why they have been a regional leader in encouraging bicycle travel.

unrelated, but... no better time to view the mountains

than the day after a "storm" passes through