11-17-2018, 01:07 PM
Back in the municipal election, Rami Said mentioned that the Uptown BIA had voted to run a pilot project this year clearing all the sidewalks along King Street and probably some other blocks in that area (I'm not sure what the boundaries are), so that explains the clean sidewalks. It will be interesting to see how it goes this year, considering how poor the clearing was at any pedestrian crossing LRT track area last year. Something tells me the BIA won't bother with the bike lanes.
On another mind-boggling note. After Thursday's snow people have started driving the wrong way down the one-way stretch of Dawson between Roslin & Beverly. Snow may have covered up the bike lane, but the two "do not enter" signs and the one way sign at Roslin are still there. I saw two people within 15 minutes on Thursday night (one of whom I waved down and informed them it was one-way), and one more this morning now that the bike lane is visible because of car tracks wearing away the snow. On Thursday night when I was shovelling someone was walking in the bike lane and I warned him that I had seen people drive the wrong way and he just remarked that the bike lane wasn't visible with the snow, as if that made it OK, and also not getting that where he was walking put him in harms way because of those drivers.
The reason for one-way is that the new sidewalk made the road too narrow for two-way traffic, the comically short bike lane was just a bonus. I'm wondering when the first collision will happen.
On another mind-boggling note. After Thursday's snow people have started driving the wrong way down the one-way stretch of Dawson between Roslin & Beverly. Snow may have covered up the bike lane, but the two "do not enter" signs and the one way sign at Roslin are still there. I saw two people within 15 minutes on Thursday night (one of whom I waved down and informed them it was one-way), and one more this morning now that the bike lane is visible because of car tracks wearing away the snow. On Thursday night when I was shovelling someone was walking in the bike lane and I warned him that I had seen people drive the wrong way and he just remarked that the bike lane wasn't visible with the snow, as if that made it OK, and also not getting that where he was walking put him in harms way because of those drivers.
The reason for one-way is that the new sidewalk made the road too narrow for two-way traffic, the comically short bike lane was just a bonus. I'm wondering when the first collision will happen.