11-04-2014, 10:14 AM
(11-03-2014, 10:44 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: The region is proposing segregated bike lanes from Charles to 7 on both sides of Ottawa (pages 102 and 112 Appendix B).
I guess this would connect to a mix of regular cycling lanes, and mixed-use trails on the other side of 7 (also in same link).
Yes, it looks like it would connect to Iron Horse on the West side. This is great. I wish they would take it a step further and tackle the segment of Ottawa further to the west, though.
Actually, I just wrote to Jane Mitchell yesterday about that. CBC had a piece about the Region's worst 10 intersections, and 3 of them are on Ottawa: Ottawa and Fischer-Hallman, Westmount, and Homer Watson. (When my spouse bike commutes to work, she needs to take Ottawa from Kehl to Strasburg. It's short, but easily the worst part of that ride.) Unfortunately, this project doesn't address that part at all. And Strasburg includes a bike path too, so it would make sense to extend west from that respect.
I was surprised to read that Ottawa is a core cycling route. It is by geography: you can't avoid it, really. But it's also really hostile right now.
Still, with Manitou and Ottawa getting segregated bike paths, that part of Kitchener is starting to get some good bicycle infrastructure!