Biking & Walking
396 S Washington ST
- Case Date:
- 3/7/2024
Hello-
I was actually hit by a car on washington between 3rd and Smiths St's tonight, 3/7/24 a bit after 6 pm.
A Porsche SUV driven by a college-aged female drove up next to me, then attempted to turn west onto Smith directly in front of me causing me to run into the passenger side door with my elbow and bike.
I had a rear blinking light on, so this person had to have seen me as she approached.
I'm fine; I yelled some very not-nice things and continued on my way.
I know there's nothing to be done here, but in the interest of logging yet another incident in this area, I wanted to report.
thanks again.
Sorry, no picture.
Biking & Walking
250 S Washington ST
- Case Date:
- 3/18/2024
Well, students are back and bike lanes are blocked!
Washington between 4th and 3rd St 3/18/24 6:12pm IL plate: DV 82149
thanks!
Biking & Walking
250 S Washington ST
- Case Date:
- 3/6/2024
Hello
Car 1/2 blocking the bike lane on Washington between 4th and 3rd Sts 3/6/24 at 6:15pm IN Plate: TQR766
Thanks!
Biking & Walking
250 S Washington St Suit 1, Bloomington, IN 47408, USA
- Case Date:
- 3/6/2024
Hello
Car 2/2 blocking the bike lane on Washington between 4th and 3rd Sts 3/6/24 at 6:15pm KY Plate: G5R007
Thanks!
Biking & Walking
307 E 7th ST
- Case Date:
- 10/28/2022
The lack of 4 way stops on 7th near Dunn is a severe hazard, resulting in several accidents. This is an extreme hazard for cyclists. Can someone from the city pedestrian and bicycle commission contact me about it. I would like to add it to the agenda at the next meeting in November.
Biking & Walking
651 W Skyline DR
- Case Date:
- 6/22/2020
There is a walk way from Cascades Addition from near 651 Skyline Drive that goes into the Arlington Elementary School yard. I have tried but never have been able to find out who (school or city) is responsible for it. I think the school has cleared it out every year before school starts. Children from the neighborhood walk to school that way and people walk to Kroger or to the walking path and frisbee golf course at Arlington. Right now it is really overgrown and some people have come racing their bicycles and scooters out of it and almost hit us twice (they were young adults). There used to be posts on it so no one could do that or try to drive on it! Picture is From Skyline Dr. looking up (see cut off post). I think the posts need to be put back up and it definitely needs to be cleared on both sides of path from overgrowth.
Biking & Walking
800 E 3rd St, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA
- Case Date:
- 9/1/2022
Be advised that bicyclist and scooterists are subjected to extremely dangerous riding conditions while using the 3rd street bike lane (traveling West between Eagleson Ave & Indiana Ave). Both the signage and the enforcement for this area are inadequate resulting in vehicles generally disregarding the bicycle right-of-way in the bike lane. Bicyclists must either come to a sudden and complete stop to avoid colliding with vehicles parked in the bike lane, or risk traveling into busy vehicle lane traffic to swerve around parked vehicles. I experience this problem happening almost every day while riding in this bike lane, and the individuals who are parking in the bike lane are generally resistant when I ask them to move out of the bike lane.
A long term strategy that should be implemented as soon as possible would be to construct a raised curb and/or visibility bars along the shared edge of the bike lane/vehicular lane. This can easily be designed to accommodate the busses and university vehicles that need to pull to the bus stops or onto the sidewalk by including strategic gaps. This should ideally be done before a vehicle and bicycle immanently collide resulting in injury or worse.
I have tried reaching out to various city and university departments, so I trust that you will consider this ticket or ensure that it is taken seriously and responded to by the relevant department.