11-19-2016, 11:22 AM
(11-19-2016, 12:49 AM)jwilliamson Wrote: No mention of any bike infrastructure.
"d) Request to Reduce Weber Street to Two Through Lanes and a Centre Left Lane to Allow For Cycling Lanes
Project Team Response:
With respect to cycling lanes, this section of Weber Street has very limited opportunity to provide any space for a cycling facility. The photo in Figure 2 shows the constraints in the corridor, with narrow boulevards and many fronting residential buildings immediately behind the sidewalk. The Region’s approved Active Transportation Master Plan (ATMP) acknowledged this constrained corridor on Weber Street and in fact did not designate any section of Weber Street in Kitchener as an official cycling route because of the challenges with introducing any pavement widening. Cycling facilities are instead available on adjacent local streets such as East Avenue, Cedar Street, Borden Avenue and sections of Frederick Street, in lieu of cycling facilities on Weber Street.
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When considering how many lanes are required for acceptable operations on a road, many factors are considered including volume of traffic, number of accesses, bus
operations, the presence of turn lanes, intersection delay, maintenance requirements, traffic speed, land use, collision history, and cycling/pedestrian facility requirements.
Because of the nature of the Weber Street corridor (many driveways, high volumes of bus traffic and goods movement, many turning vehicles, and multiple lanes required at
intersections to avoid high intersection delays), the Project Team is recommending four traffic lanes be maintained today and into the future. The Project Team is therefore not
recommending that the through lanes on Weber Street be reduced to accommodate cycling."
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.