01-25-2018, 12:35 AM
The $2 million price tag referenced is very disingenuous at best; this entire trail section, not the intersection, has a budgeted cost of $750,000:
The total price covers 5.5km of trail improvements, including crossings, and improved amenities.
Personally I've always felt the safer and faster way was always to merge into traffic and turn left like Canard did in his video. Sure there were times people taking the more direct route got across fast, but on average waiting to turn left put got me across ahead or the same as the short-cut.
I was actually hoping to see an island on West too; I actually find that crossing scarier than crossing Victoria at rush hour. The wide lanes on West encourage speeding and vehicles whip around that corner incredibly dangerously; I'm actually surprised that hasn't been more serious crashes there. Especially since the SB vehicles like to cheat the corner and are well in to the NB lane and NB motorists are often swinging wide to go around cyclists or in preparation to get in to the left turn lane.
Interestingly, the City's own video tour of the trail uses the desired path (and also illustrates why 3.6m is not wide enough for the current number users nevermind the future number of users):
The total price covers 5.5km of trail improvements, including crossings, and improved amenities.
Personally I've always felt the safer and faster way was always to merge into traffic and turn left like Canard did in his video. Sure there were times people taking the more direct route got across fast, but on average waiting to turn left put got me across ahead or the same as the short-cut.
I was actually hoping to see an island on West too; I actually find that crossing scarier than crossing Victoria at rush hour. The wide lanes on West encourage speeding and vehicles whip around that corner incredibly dangerously; I'm actually surprised that hasn't been more serious crashes there. Especially since the SB vehicles like to cheat the corner and are well in to the NB lane and NB motorists are often swinging wide to go around cyclists or in preparation to get in to the left turn lane.
Interestingly, the City's own video tour of the trail uses the desired path (and also illustrates why 3.6m is not wide enough for the current number users nevermind the future number of users):
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.