Comment 97765

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted February 20, 2014 at 13:01:03 in reply to Comment 97759

The city uses the "full-car-width bike-lane with only right half for bikes" on Victoria street. It's not perfect, but it beats the heck out of the "narrow bike-lane with no protection" approach used elsewhere - the buffer on Victoria street is almost the width of a car, so cyclists are a respectable distance from car traffic.

The reason seems to be ploughing - otherwise the city would need the expense for a bobcat to clear the bike-lane, whereas the Victoria lane can be cleared by a plough... that said, at the Hunter Street terminal, I imagine a bobcat works there already. Also, the plough doesn't do a great job of clearing the Victoria lane so cyclists use the safety-buffer a bit. Still, they have space. I'd think it was a good accomodation if it weren't for the terrifyingly fast traffic on Victoria and the pathetically-short length of the lane (it only exists north of Barton and doesn't have a Southbound counterpart on Wellington).

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