11-05-2018, 02:27 PM
(11-05-2018, 12:41 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I suspect I saw it in the mirror that evening.
To be fair, it is possible for cars to drive around bollards, or over them...and also possible for cars to drive up curbs.
But this refusal to acknowledge there's a huge difference between it not being impossible to break the law and endanger people, and facilitating that law breaking and endangerment just drove me up the wall.
It's frustrating though, I am quite sure that staff fully believe they are doing the right thing here, that their design is the right one...but that's really the core problem. They either lack the skills, or the willingness (or permission) to implement truly good designs. This has the potential to destroy our chances of implementing good infra, the optics of dangerous experiences mixed with cyclist protests on the premier bike lane in the core of the city will make people think there is no way to make cycling safe.
I keep coming back to the Ottawa Laurier Ave pilot project in my head. All they did was put down the concrete parking barriers that they use at the end of parking spots over top of the painted on bike lakes. Instant segregated bike lanes. And they saw a massive increase in number of cyclists, and an increase of the confidence and feeling of safety by those cyclists.
I sound like a broken record because I keep bringing this up, but it's so simple, fairly cheap. Why not try it the way Ottawa did. If it doesn't work, you just stop it. But it will.