06-23-2021, 09:32 AM
(06-23-2021, 12:35 AM)Acitta Wrote:(06-22-2021, 11:56 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: So in other words, the infrastructure is not appropriate. Bicycles should be able to go at cruising speed on the main trails. This implies wider trails with separate bicycle and pedestrian lanes. The trails often cut across the street network so road-adjacent routes are not a substitute.I don't think that there is enough room to widen the IHT and the Laurel Trail. The IHT was already just widened. I don't think that we want to remove the trees that make the trail pleasant to be on just to make it wider. It is a shared trail with pedestrians and cyclists mixed, and I don't see it as possible to separate them.
I’m not sure about the IHT, but you raise a good point about trees. A wide trail with no vegetation just wouldn’t be the same.
I don’t understand how you can say the Laurel Trail can’t be widened. To the contrary, there is tons of space to widen it, except for the little bit where it squeezes between the LRT tracks and the CCGG; even there it could be slightly widened by paving the last bits of available space (I’m assuming the twinned section doesn’t need to be widened).