I was hit in the crosswalk on Main Street near the road into the pool in 2013.
I was crossing North towards the pool.
I was in the crosswalk in front of a car that had stopped for me when a
vehicle passed on the right and hit me diagonally.
From: wsmac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <wsmac-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of John
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Subject: [wsmac] Re: Crosswalk treatment
Thanks for the correction, Angela. As you probably figured out, I got that from
this morning's presentation by Jim, but the slide showed both, so I wasn't sure
which was which, and guessed wrong.
The passing on the right problem we have is on Main Street itself, in the
crosswalk that goes from Dunkin' over to the Baptist Church, which is next door
to where LeeLee lives. We had a close call ourselves on that after a WSMAC
meeting one night, ironically. People use the parking lane to pass on the
right. I suspect some other crosswalks have the same problem. I'm going to show
this to our Discover Downtown Westbrook Design Committee, who have talked about
trying to get together a demonstration project in Westbrook.
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 2:26 PM Angela King <angela@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Actually, this was a demonstration up in Madawaska! It was a crosswalk in
front of the middle and high school that I put up during BikeMaine 2018.
As you can see, the parking spaces were too close to the crosswalk, and there
were no safe landings. The rubber curb stops and the delineators were to define
some space for pedestrians.
It was a rainy day, and school got out just as I finished it up. When the
principal saw kids crossing and cars stopping, he said that he wanted to keep
the materials and make it permanent because cars hadn't stopped for kids
crossing before this.
The curb stops would certainly help deter passing on the right. Looking at
google maps, doesn't look like much of a shoulder on Stroudwater, but might
want signage to alert any cyclist riding in the shoulder to take the travel
lane.
That was a complaint from some cyclists when a crosswalk demo in North Yarmouth
had curb stops in the shoulder.
<https://drive.google.com/a/bikemaine.org/uc?id=1pIhBJaN6AFDuJP7LHgAqB9YJYaFu9NDO&export=download>
On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 10:42 AM Dennis Marrotte <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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The two small buildings in the background " Park " of the picture look familiar
from downtown Brunswick on that Town's Maine Street, as its named. Bowdoin
College is to the R and downtown Brunswick is to the L. Don't quote me on
this !
Dennis
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Thank You, John ! The Crosswalk to the east bound lane of Main Street,
turning onto Spring Street in front of the Peoples United Bank is one of the
most notorious in Westbrook along with the west bound lane of Main Street at
Stroudwater. Need to find out the vendor and Where that Crosswalk is located.
Dennis
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Subject: [wsmac] Crosswalk treatment
Here's an excellent idea for the Stroudwater & Main crosswalk, and some others,
to prevent motorists from passing on the right when someone is crossing. This
is an inexpensive treatment that was facilitated by the Bicycle Coalition of
Maine as part of their Imagine People Here
<https://www.bikemaine.org/advocacy/imagine-people-here/> program of "tactical
urbanism <http://tacticalurbanismguide.com/about/> ". I'm not sure, but I think
this is from Saco.