11-05-2018, 04:03 PM
(11-05-2018, 02:27 PM)Spokes Wrote: 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.
Yep. There's good, better, best. What we don't have in the King St pilot is even "good". If they put bollards at the ends of the lanes that would help a bit (people often park beyond the end of the parking and into the bike lane).
I'd say that concrete parking barriers would be "better" and maybe "best"; they're designed to redirect cars off of them. A median might look better but could be less effective than the Jersey barrier.
I am just coming back from Montreal where I was on bike paths that I used to ride 20 years ago and ones that have only been there for 5 years. Some of the old ones now have just the crowd control barriers plus a row of parked cars; I don't remember what they were like back in the day. Also those paths are parallel to major arteries. Certainly those parts of the bike path network worked well for me on the weekend.