General Road and Highway Discussion

[danbrotherston]

"Extremely surprised to see they plan to expand Blair Road between Fountain and George. That section of road has never struck me as being bad for traffic or needing to be widened."

Yeah unless there is an accident it is never slow through there.  Wondering if they are looking at providing bike lanes.  In the spring-fall there are a lot of cyclists and most sections aren't very wide with a lot of curves.

Whereas a significant expansion of the public transit budget would be a big discussion.

Re: bike lanes, I believe this road is rural in character? If so, a fully separated path would be better, although the path itself should probably have separate pedestrian and bicycle lanes.

It already has the Walter Bean trail along it - directly adjacent for about 2km, then parallel through Rare until the George connection.

The section with the trail adjacent is "separated", in that it has a half meter with a rumble strip and some (often destroyed by cars) plastic bollards, and for a short time, a curb. It really isn't terrible, if they'd fix the pavement and remove the broken glass and car parts.

The rest of it has a trail through the natural area which isn't suitable for road cyclists, where there is a need for a real parallel trail.

Whereas, you're absolutely right, it's time we made a big expansion to the road budget a big point of discussion. That's my intent.