Hi Folks, Your help is requested!

PA/E Council are undertaking final design for enhanced bike lanes along Folland Avenue, Northgate/Lightsview. The intent is to install a line-marked buffer between the existing on-road cycle lanes and the vehicle travel lanes (see example below).

Most of Folland Ave has no central median so there is sufficient width for a 1.5m bike lane with the proposed buffer strip and a motoring lane. However, between Dumfries Avenue & Fosters Road a centre median is present which limits the carriageway width to 5.0m for each direction. 

The current arrangement in this section is a 1.5m bike lane and a 3.5m travel lane. If Council continue the buffer lane through this section they would need to narrow the bike lane slightly to 1.3m with a 0.4m buffer strip and a 3.3m travel lane (the 3.3m travel lane is required by DIT for bus routes). 

Council are seeking feedback on which would be the better outcome for this section of Folland Ave – the existing arrangement of a 1.5m bike lane & 3.5m travel lane (ie; without a buffer lane) or a slightly narrower bike lane (1.3m) with a 0.4m continuous buffer. See below for draft layouts for these 2 road treatment options.

Please let us know what you think via email at portadbug@gmail.com by this coming Friday 23rd Feb (if you are on facebook you can already read some interesting comments from members at our f/b BUG Forum at https://www.facebook.com/groups/portadbug/.