07-27-2022, 10:45 AM
(07-26-2022, 12:23 PM)ac3r Wrote: Me too, so let's not pretend we need to settle for mediocrity with silly suggestions that we bike in the middle of active train lines and in gutters they pour green paint on in order for us to do this. Cyclists in this region deserve proper infrastructure that is safe, secure and looks aesthetically beautiful in order to make it an integral part of the urban fabric. It just takes some daring people to turn something like Stephen Wenzel's 2015 thesis on cycle infrastructure done at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture into reality. Or we can look at the complex network of cycle paths and different styles of streets in countries like Denmark, Netherlands, Finland etc. Because it's visions like these that are meaningful, not bike gutters.
Still not even an attempt at explaining what is wrong with putting the bicycle path between the LRT tracks.
It’s OK, apparently, to sandwich the active transportation between the edge of the bridge and motor vehicle traffic driven every random idiot in the city, separated by nothing more than 10cm of paint, and with freeway ramps crossing. How is riding next to a low-traffic (one vehicle every 10 minutes) LRT track with no crossing of other routes any worse? Slagging it as “in the middle of active train lines” is just meaningless word-painting that will give an incorrect impression in the minds of people who are unfamiliar with the situation of what is actually being proposed and what it would be like.
I’ll agree that a separate bridge for bicyclists and pedestrians would be awesome, but if you’re going to call the centre-lane idea silly I think you should justify doing so.
Of course you won’t because it’s actually a pretty good idea and there is no actual reason for calling it silly. Prove me wrong, I’m listening, unlike (apparently) you.