05-23-2022, 01:31 PM
(05-23-2022, 12:15 PM)bravado Wrote:(05-23-2022, 11:11 AM)robd Wrote: This isn't even the worst part of the infrastructure. total length is 850m, for some reason it crosses from one side of the road to the other where you would legally have to walk your bike, no signage of the end of the infrastructure and painted arrows that don't hint at the switch in sides so you end up riding on a sidewalk. The refusal to appropriate minimum amount of land along fountain to connect it with the MUP or send it up Shantz Hill makes it infrastructure to nowhere.
It is better than nothing but I regularly have to break the law just to be keep my kid safe. This is also a surprisingly busy area for active transportation.
Ha yeah, it has a MUT starting at the Blair roundabout, then it goes away once the houses start, then it re-appears at Canadian Tire, then switches sides of the road at Riverside Park, and then disappears for 1 block... and then the on-street bike lane appears on the other side of the street in Preston! Perfect infrastructure!
Funding is certainly an obstacle to cycling infrastructure.
But it's becoming increasingly clear that securing funding is not SUFFICIENT for cycling infra.
We need political will and engineering competence.
We also need to stop putting up with mediocrity.
I really really hope folks, community and on council refuse to accept the region's mediocre "solution" to their unwillingness to dedicate space to cyclists for the downtown grid...
The downtown grid is the rarest of birds...an opportunity with funding, political will, and talent. I hope it is not compromised by the incompetence and apathy at the regional level, and tolerance of mediocrity and frankly exhaustion from everyone else.