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roadfro:
--- Quote from: gonealookin on June 27, 2023, 12:58:01 PM ---NDOT is proposing an experimental "temporary road diet" later this summer for a short portion of US 50 along the east shore of Lake Tahoe. Link to story.
--- Quote ---The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is proposing to temporarily restripe a one-mile section of US50 on Tahoe’s East Shore to reconfigure the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, with a middle turn lane. Highway officials say this is a limited test project aimed at enhancing transportation safety and access on the corridor.
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NDOT is planning to start the project in August and have it in place through September. The section of US50 proposed to be restriped is from south of Zephyr Cove Resort to Round Hill Pines Beach Resort. The test reconfiguration will restripe the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, allowing room for a two-way middle turn lane for designated turns to and from numerous driveways and side streets. Peak summer season traffic provides an opportunity to test roadway concepts which NDOT has received public feedback on.
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The striping will be required to be removed after the trial period.
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There is an ongoing proposal to apply the road diet to about a 7-mile stretch of the highway, from a mile or so north of the SR 207 junction up to Glenbrook. As the highway is currently striped there is no center turn lane, just a double-striped yellow line, no dedicated left turn lanes to the side streets so people making left turns have to stop in the through travel lane, and very little shoulder room for bicyclists. The tradeoff is obviously losing the second through travel lane in each direction, and not too surprisingly there is a fair amount of community opposition to the road diet, to the point that bumper stickers have been printed: "US 50: KEEP FOUR LANES".
The portion which will be temporarily restriped is shown, approximately, here: https://goo.gl/maps/udpj5HXDRymiixWT9
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Very interesting.
I'm not up at the lake enough to have insight into all the traffic woes. But I feel like along this part of US 50, a road diet could potentially work... I was similarly opposed to Washoe RTC's reduction to Virginia Street near UNR, turning a travel lane into a bus/bike lane–a couple years in now, and it's not as horrible as I thought it'd be (although it's not pleasant during football/basketball and other major events on campus).
Regardless of the outcome of this experiment, I think the one thing NDOT really needs to do along US 50 in Tahoe is have better accommodation for bikes and peds. The trail they built along SR 28 from Incline down to Sand Harbor seems like a very nice addition, and extending that further south down 28 & 50 could provide a great recreational connection and potentially increase safety in the highway corridor by moving bikes out of conflict with traffic and parked cars along both highways.
gonealookin:
--- Quote from: roadfro on June 28, 2023, 12:21:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: gonealookin on June 27, 2023, 12:58:01 PM ---NDOT is proposing an experimental "temporary road diet" later this summer for a short portion of US 50 along the east shore of Lake Tahoe. Link to story.
--- Quote ---The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is proposing to temporarily restripe a one-mile section of US50 on Tahoe’s East Shore to reconfigure the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, with a middle turn lane. Highway officials say this is a limited test project aimed at enhancing transportation safety and access on the corridor.
...
NDOT is planning to start the project in August and have it in place through September. The section of US50 proposed to be restriped is from south of Zephyr Cove Resort to Round Hill Pines Beach Resort. The test reconfiguration will restripe the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, allowing room for a two-way middle turn lane for designated turns to and from numerous driveways and side streets. Peak summer season traffic provides an opportunity to test roadway concepts which NDOT has received public feedback on.
...
The striping will be required to be removed after the trial period.
--- End quote ---
There is an ongoing proposal to apply the road diet to about a 7-mile stretch of the highway, from a mile or so north of the SR 207 junction up to Glenbrook. As the highway is currently striped there is no center turn lane, just a double-striped yellow line, no dedicated left turn lanes to the side streets so people making left turns have to stop in the through travel lane, and very little shoulder room for bicyclists. The tradeoff is obviously losing the second through travel lane in each direction, and not too surprisingly there is a fair amount of community opposition to the road diet, to the point that bumper stickers have been printed: "US 50: KEEP FOUR LANES".
The portion which will be temporarily restriped is shown, approximately, here: https://goo.gl/maps/udpj5HXDRymiixWT9
--- End quote ---
Very interesting.
I'm not up at the lake enough to have insight into all the traffic woes. But I feel like along this part of US 50, a road diet could potentially work... I was similarly opposed to Washoe RTC's reduction to Virginia Street near UNR, turning a travel lane into a bus/bike lane–a couple years in now, and it's not as horrible as I thought it'd be (although it's not pleasant during football/basketball and other major events on campus).
Regardless of the outcome of this experiment, I think the one thing NDOT really needs to do along US 50 in Tahoe is have better accommodation for bikes and peds. The trail they built along SR 28 from Incline down to Sand Harbor seems like a very nice addition, and extending that further south down 28 & 50 could provide a great recreational connection and potentially increase safety in the highway corridor by moving bikes out of conflict with traffic and parked cars along both highways.
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It seems that there was so much opposition to the US 50 road diet from the community and Douglas County government that NDOT has thrown in the towel on even doing this as an experiment.
https://www.recordcourier.com/news/2023/jul/21/state-highway-50-restriping-postponed-indefinitely/
--- Quote ---Highway 50 is expected to undergo repaving next year, Tedford said, with work going out to bid over the next two months with the state Transportation Board of Directors hearing the proposal in October or November.
He said at the end of that project the road will be striped similar to its current condition, without reduced sections.
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heynow415:
--- Quote from: gonealookin on July 24, 2023, 08:10:13 PM ---
--- Quote from: roadfro on June 28, 2023, 12:21:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: gonealookin on June 27, 2023, 12:58:01 PM ---NDOT is proposing an experimental "temporary road diet" later this summer for a short portion of US 50 along the east shore of Lake Tahoe. Link to story.
--- Quote ---The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is proposing to temporarily restripe a one-mile section of US50 on Tahoe’s East Shore to reconfigure the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, with a middle turn lane. Highway officials say this is a limited test project aimed at enhancing transportation safety and access on the corridor.
...
NDOT is planning to start the project in August and have it in place through September. The section of US50 proposed to be restriped is from south of Zephyr Cove Resort to Round Hill Pines Beach Resort. The test reconfiguration will restripe the highway from two lanes to one lane in each direction, allowing room for a two-way middle turn lane for designated turns to and from numerous driveways and side streets. Peak summer season traffic provides an opportunity to test roadway concepts which NDOT has received public feedback on.
...
The striping will be required to be removed after the trial period.
--- End quote ---
There is an ongoing proposal to apply the road diet to about a 7-mile stretch of the highway, from a mile or so north of the SR 207 junction up to Glenbrook. As the highway is currently striped there is no center turn lane, just a double-striped yellow line, no dedicated left turn lanes to the side streets so people making left turns have to stop in the through travel lane, and very little shoulder room for bicyclists. The tradeoff is obviously losing the second through travel lane in each direction, and not too surprisingly there is a fair amount of community opposition to the road diet, to the point that bumper stickers have been printed: "US 50: KEEP FOUR LANES".
The portion which will be temporarily restriped is shown, approximately, here: https://goo.gl/maps/udpj5HXDRymiixWT9
--- End quote ---
Very interesting.
I'm not up at the lake enough to have insight into all the traffic woes. But I feel like along this part of US 50, a road diet could potentially work... I was similarly opposed to Washoe RTC's reduction to Virginia Street near UNR, turning a travel lane into a bus/bike lane—a couple years in now, and it's not as horrible as I thought it'd be (although it's not pleasant during football/basketball and other major events on campus).
Regardless of the outcome of this experiment, I think the one thing NDOT really needs to do along US 50 in Tahoe is have better accommodation for bikes and peds. The trail they built along SR 28 from Incline down to Sand Harbor seems like a very nice addition, and extending that further south down 28 & 50 could provide a great recreational connection and potentially increase safety in the highway corridor by moving bikes out of conflict with traffic and parked cars along both highways.
--- End quote ---
It seems that there was so much opposition to the US 50 road diet from the community and Douglas County government that NDOT has thrown in the towel on even doing this as an experiment.
https://www.recordcourier.com/news/2023/jul/21/state-highway-50-restriping-postponed-indefinitely/
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That's really unfortunate, but not uncommon. We had a similar situation locally with a road diet being a likely solution to several problems on a roadway, including speeding, substandard lane widths, lots of bicyclists, visibility issues for drivers pulling out of side streets, etc. The situation on the ground and the data (collision history, traffic volumes, roadway geometry, vehicle types, etc.) all pointed to the lane diet. Given the considerable concern over doing a road diet, there was the opportunity to do it as an experiment since the road was scheduled for repaving a year later. That the community wouldn't even entertain doing it as an experiment caused the whole thing to be dropped. Now they still have all the issues that they've been complaining about for years and they got nothing resolved. The fear of change, any change, even if to try something out, strikes again.
roadfro:
Mod Note: Three posts in this thread from 8/30/2023 discussing the US 95 Downtown Access Project in Las Vegas were moved to the existing thread here at the link below. –Roadfro
US 95 Downtown Access Project, Las Vegas
roadman65:
Was the part of Fremont Street in LV that is now The Fremont Experience ever part of US 93/95/466? I can’t find any old maps to show if it was Las Vegas Blvd or Main Street that was US 91 through Downtown Vegas. If it were the former it would be know as all three routes would have turned from Fremont to LV Blvd. If it were the latter, than all three US routes would have remained to Main ( which would have used the pavement where the infamous pedestrian mall now is, and then turned onto Main in front of The Plaza Hotel.
Does anyone have info regarding the Downtown LV former and historic alignments of all four US routes that were the main arteries of the city?
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