12-11-2017, 08:50 AM
(12-11-2017, 08:44 AM)MidTowner Wrote: Weber Street through the study area carries about 20,000 vehicles per day. You could take a lane and convert it into a protected two-way cycle track, and the street would function perfectly fine as one lane in each direction plus a centre turning lane.
It's disingenuous to say that we need arterials (of course we do, but the above configuration works for arterials carrying that volume in many places) because x% of the population commutes by car. That proportion commutes by car at least in part because we have such poor infrastructure. Creating "solutions" for cyclists that involve walking their bike the last few blocks to their destination will not increase cycling's mode share.
I find it interesting that the problem isn’t even just a misguided engineering approach: there are x cars, therefore we need y amount of space dedicated to cars. The road is actually over-engineered, even taking as given the assumption that car traffic must be accommodated.
And that cartoon from the Woolwich Observer is a form of bigotry. It wouldn’t be acceptable to slag accommodations for wheelchair users or other groups that way.