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i use the patullo every day going east in the morning and west in the evening.
admittedly there is not a huge amount of bike traffic and even less foot traffic, but i could see the bike traffic increasing if it were safer. right now there is one single sidewalk for pedestrians and bikes that both directions share. when two bikes approach each other one must yield for the other or else passing on the unprotected sidewalk section of the bridge is extremely dangerous. if this were made safer then lots of people would cycle over this bridge imo. there is actually pretty decent biking infrastructure on both sides of the bridge already.
i cant help but to feel like they need a 6 lane bridge, because it gets way too congested going west in the morning and east in the evening. fortunately i go the opposite way, but the lineups that i see look stressful and depressing. going against the flow of traffic, it's completely problem free every day.
the new bridge would definitely help a little with congestion even as a 4 lane though, since semi trucks would no longer have to own the entire road with their hazard lights on so that nobody can unsafely pass them as they chug up the bridge at 30kph. still, during rush hour that isn't the main problem, its simply congested due to too many cars crossing over.
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