05-07-2020, 09:27 AM
(05-07-2020, 09:01 AM)tomh009 Wrote:(05-06-2020, 05:28 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: 4. The region will be constructing a MUT along Ottawa St. to connect the IHT with the planned bike lanes on Ottawa to the east. This is great news, but it is that rare kind of thing where they are correcting bad decisions made very recently. This project is part of the Weber St. reconstruction, and also includes protected cycle lanes along Ottawa. And they even managed to at least compute the correct turning radiis. They're still using the regions unnecessarily giant turn radii but the engineers computed the effect turn radii from outside the bike lane, instead of simply the curb radius which ignores the fact that cars are turning from 2 meters away. Honestly, this is simple stuff, but I don't believe they got it right on Dundas OR on Erb.
Where on Ottawa will the MUT be?
The MUT will be on Ottawa from Charles to Nyberg, from Charles to the Highway 7/8 overpass will be protected bike lanes (roll curbs), the 7/8 bridge will be the usual MTO no mans land.
Basically the MUT is going in because the region planned for Ottawa to be the main bike route across the city, but then didn't tell the people who were building the LRT (not that it would have mattered, there's good evidence the LRT engineers have never been on a bicycle). So I fully give them credit for attempting to patch an idiotic situation but this will still need another infill project (one that will be far more difficult because of property constraints and the residential context--such that I really doubt it will ever happen--at least not in 50 years) to complete one of the cities "main bike routes".