10-21-2020, 01:40 PM
(10-21-2020, 09:42 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:(06-08-2020, 01:57 PM)Spokes Wrote: Agreed.
The new trail is better in some ways, the section you showed is clearly improved, but in other ways it is worse. It's a little longer, and includes a sharp turn, but the biggest problem is the section along Caroline. Not only does it pass in front of a garage entrance with poor sight lines and wide turn allowances (drivers are going to be going too fast), but the designers need to have an engineering lesson because the design of the entrance suggests to drivers that they have the right of way, even though they don't, and places unnecessary curbs in the path of cyclists--it's the usual stuff done by road engineers who don't understand anything else, but it definitely degrades the safety and experience of the trail over the previous condition.
As a bonus, the condo corporation is apparently responsible for clearing the trail on their property, according to the city at least, and they did not do so last winter. A resident yelled at me for riding on the sidewalk past their building, when the trail had 2 feet of snow on it, leaves a kinda bad taste in my mouth.
Not to say these things couldn't have been done right, but the no developer at any time has shown competence in designing the trail (I realize this was two developers. When they originally came to council they proposed a 2.5 meter trail directly abutting the parking garage....which doesn't mean any standards for a MUT, they "learned" at council after advocates came and explained all the things wrong with their design, but we shouldn't have to explain to people how to do their jobs right.
I'm surprised by this. Are there other sections of the IHT (or others) that are private property?