Originally Posted by
FBinNY
…Also, there's no point I'd debating sloped curbs, since the obvious solution is to have the path level with surrounding pavement..
not quite that obvious. i assume you mean the pedestrian paving, not the vehicular lane. (it is basically level with the vehicular lane, currently, within the parameters of drainage.)
making bike lanes level with the sidewalk means you have to go up and down at every intersection, unless the pedestrian crossings are also raised and the cars go up and down. creates all sorts of funky conditions at intersections, moves the entrance to the storm sewer inboard by the width of the bike lane, and reduces the height of the curb since you can’t slope UP away from the sidewalk unless your goal is to make a river, not a sidewalk.
i realize everyone thinks they’re a civil engineer …. but actually only civil engineers are civil engineers.