Brunswick Considering Bike Lanes Downtown To Allow You To Put The Five Sheets Of Plywood You Bought At Hammond Lumber In Your Basket And Bring Them Home Safely

BRUNSWICK — The first of several public forums on potential changes to Maine Street and the downtown district was a success, Councilor Margo Knight said Tuesday. Knight said about 75 people turned out for the public forum on Monday night to look at options for roundabouts and the addition of bike lanes to Maine Street. “We had five breakout tables looking at the different plans for Maine Street,” she said. “We have three different options for roundabouts at Pleasant and Maine streets, and people approached this with a very positive, open attitude. It was really good to hear a lot of people very interested and positive about things that we could do to make downtown better for everybody.” The Master Plan Implementation Committee presented two, detailed plans for changing traffic lanes on Maine Street between Gilman Place and Town Hall Place. One of the plans inserts bike lanes next to the sidewalk on each side and keeps head-in diagonal parking, with two travel lanes and a turn lane. The other plan has back-in front-forward angle parking and continues the four lanes of travel, turning one lane into a share-row for bicyclists and vehicles. “The only way (the second plan) could work is to have the back-in, front-out parking because people would be backing into the bike lane and couldn’t see cars coming,” Knight said. “That was not a very popular concept at all.” (read more at TheForecaster)

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