03-14-2023, 11:33 AM
(03-14-2023, 07:39 AM)cherrypark Wrote:Crossrides are starting to be used much more frequently, and I believe the plans for Bleams are still evaluating the preferred streetscape composition with either a choice of sidewalk and adjacent cycle track (all off-street) or a combined MUP. The first purpose-built Dutch-style roundabout will also be coming soon to this area, right at the location of the new southwest KPL branch at Rosenberg and Abram Clemens within the Williamsburg Green community. There will be off-street MUPs connecting Williamsburg down to RBJ Schlegel Park, intersecting with a "City Spine" trail through the hydro corridor which crosses Bleams and Fischer-Hallman connecting east and west.(03-13-2023, 07:56 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: Block Line has MUTs on the section between Strasburg and Homerwatson and bike lanes everywhere else, Bleams is supposed to be getting MUTs when they widen it, Homerwatson also has a MUT, Ottawa is slowly getting a MUT, then Strasburg will have a MUT from Ottawa to the new bridge. So it is definitely not a bad area to bike in compared to other neighborhoods, the only road that doesn't have decent cycling infrastructure in the neighborhood is Westmount, it did have the covid bike lanes though and numerous people were using them so they might put bike lanes or a MUT in eventually.
If you were someone living in the townhouses that Activa is planning biking downtown wouldn't be all that difficult, you'd bike up to block line, cut through McLennan park, take the Ottawa MUT to Strasburg then the new bridge, then down Stirling and from their your at the east end of downtown. So it's anything but a desert when it comes to cycling infrastructure and as neonjoe already mentioned it's far from a transit desert.
Here's hoping that the Bleams ones do a better job of the intersection treatments. Block Line MUTs are nice until they aren't at Strasburg, especially trying to make a left turn.