09-18-2022, 01:11 AM
(09-17-2022, 10:26 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: I suspect that the suggestion that people on SB 85 accessing the bridgeport area can just get off at University and use surface streets would be considered unthinkable by most engineers and much of council. But that's actually a relatively minor detour. We need to start having serious conversations about this kind of limitation. The idea of making a trip a few minutes longer in order to make our roads safer and saner should be an easy win...
I’m pessimistic, but not quite that pessimistic. Something similar was done at Northfield for the LRT — certain movements are simply not allowed anymore (leading to the could-have-been possibility of a centre bike path on Northfield).
Thinking more about the Bridgeport situation, however, I’m actually thinking that putting the bicycle path (2-way) on the south side might actually work. As it is, the only part of the interchange which would cross the bike path is the east to south onramp; but that could be closed and people making that movement could instead turn left onto the other existing onramp.
This would also eliminate an instance of onramp and offramp (Lancaster) being too close together.
The biggest problem I see is that the bike path on the rest of Erb St. is on the north side, and would have to cross to the south side somewhere west of the interchange. Whereas a north side bikepath on Erb St. is already between the eastbound (Erb) and westbound (Bridgeport) lanes.