bike lanes

City of Columbia removing bike lanes from Farrow Road shortly after putting them in

Miscommunication about the bike lanes going in and drivers’ confusion doomed the project, Nuelken believes.

The bike lanes were created during a resurfacing project on Farrow Road. The road had four northbound and southbound lanes with a central turning lane. It went to two lanes going in each direction with buffer zones and bike lanes on both sides of the road. About two weeks ago the finalization of the bike lanes, which would have included additional signage and road markings, was put on hold, according to Nuelken.

The city announced Friday that it would be removing the lanes.

Another news report mentioned that drivers had been driving in the bike lane, and that there had been some "near misses" (I think they meant car-to-car, not car-to-bike, but am not sure).

I drove down that road a few weeks ago myself, and was confused by the new lane markings. Based on those markings, I wondered if maybe the right lane was meant to be a bike lane, with a buffer zone between that lane and the car lane I was in. But I was confused because there was *NOTHING* to indicate that it was a bike lane - I kept looking for some sign. There were just extra white lines in the road. No bicycle symbols or anything like that. So of course drivers are going to be confused, and people are going to complain!

Eh. But I'd still prefer having a physical barrier between any bike lanes and car lanes, for everyone's safety.

hotel confusion

I'm looking at hotel room descriptions, and I don't understand the difference between these:

Room, 1 King Bed
360 square feet
(Extra beds available: Crib)
Room sleeps 4 guests (up to 3 children)

Room, 1 King Bed
360 square feet
(Extra beds available: Crib)
Room sleeps 2 guests (up to 1 child)


Neither description mentions there being a sofa bed.

I think the "up to x children" means that of the total people in the room, one of them must be an adult, and the rest can be children.


When reading the first description, I wondered if they were saying that the king bed is large enough to sleep 4 people? But then I saw the 2nd one, which also has a king bed, but only says it is for 2 people. So where do the other people sleep? Are only cribs available... so they mean the first room supports 2 adults and 2 children, but not 4 adults?

Is it not really based on the beds then, or the amount of space for cribs (as both have the same # of square feet), but rather based on the number of towels provided?

Or are the rooms identical, but it's just that they would charge a different amount, depending on the number of children?

very large snake?

This review makes me dubious about the veracity of the rest of the reviews too.

Hotel review:
Room was not very clean. Had bugs in room never came and cleaned room. had a very large snake in the sitting area outside. Lots of drug dealing and prosituites all hours of the day and night. Not a very safe place to stay.The worse Red roof I have evet stayed at. Will not stay at this one again and will not recommend it to anyone else. Very unsafe place.