Bike Club sues State over rumble strips
...DAVID WILSON, the cycle club’s president, said there was clearly a safety issue that needed to be addressed by putting up signs, enforcing speed limits, widening part of the road, or even installing a few hundred feet of rumble strips to slow cars trying to get around vehicles making a left.
But he said that had the accidents not been at a Department of Transportation center, there would have been no chance of four miles of ridged curtain. The road’s accident rate was lower than the state average, Mr. Wilson added, there were virtually no reports of drivers falling asleep, and the strips seemed to violate the department’s regulations.
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“What was a reasonably safe thoroughfare for bicyclists was essentially destroyed by the addition of the rumble strips,” went one of the dozens of complaints sent to the department. The writer said that a road where she had taught her son to ride a bike “now represents a significant danger to bicyclists and motorists.”
After the department issued a report supporting the project, the cycle club filed suit June 1 asking a state court to force it to pave over the strips. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08towns.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion">http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08towns.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion</a>;
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