Comment 112840

By DowntownInHamilton (registered) | Posted July 17, 2015 at 23:25:20 in reply to Comment 112823

You seem to have no problem telling someone else to go 20 minutes out of their way - on a human-powered vehicle, no less - rather than simply fixing the problem with better up-and-down connections. A driver told to go 20 minutes out of the way on a trip that would otherwise take not much more than 20 minutes would be apoplectic.

Nonsense. I wish I could get from home to work and back in a straight line drive. And I could, if we ran more bridges across Lake Ontario. I have to drive around one side of Lake Ontario (QEW Niagara to Red Hill to the Linc) or the other (403 to the Linc) to get home. It adds what would probably amount to 20-30 minutes but I do it.

There are recreational bike trips - which I enjoy as much as anyone - and then there are errands, and they are not the same thing.

Right. And when you're going from your home in the lower city up the escarpment to the other side of the city, that's a long distance. How come I can't walk on a sidewalk connecting me from my house to yours? Or to Lime Ridge? Or to Jackson Square? Or to Dundas, or Freelton, or anywhere else?

The escarpment is a challenge, not an excuse. There is no reason not to have a protected, continuous bike lane on the Jolley Cut (rather than the skinny painted lane that starts partway up the hill) and especially on the Claremont. There

Build a funicular tomorrow and it'll help. Seriously, I'd use it.

The only reason we don't have these things is that the City doesn't care to implement them. Everything else is just noise and excuses.

Hardly.

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