Raise the Hammer

Also, the lack of left-turn Bike Boxes on York is ridiculous. Every day it's frustrating to get over from the York lane at Hess to get onto the Cannon track, and in the reverse trip to get from Cannon onto Dundurn (or Locke, depending on my mood).

I wouldn't mind the city's "unprotected super-wide bike/turning-lane" strategy if they took it to its logical conclusion: these bare-minimum bike-lanes should be slapped into every 3-lane-plus 1-way in the entire city with very little time or money spent on planning or implementation (Victoria and Wellington, I'm looking at you). THey're just paint (cheap and fast), they make negligible impact on traffic and they're wide-enough that they are still a substantial improvement over biking in mixed traffic or tiny-shoulder-lanes. I'd be happy with them as a "build this today, plan for better later" if I trusted the city not to drag their feet on it and call them "good-enough".

Yeah, right.

One does wonder if any of the city staff related to cycling are actual cyclists.

edit: OMG that list!

Paved shoulders on Centre! I know Carlisle isnt' exactly an area of much concern to RTH readers, but my in-laws live there and that place desperately needs sidewalks. Paved shoulders would be a great improvement to the area.

Also Parkside in Waterdown (I'm a regular at the Y there next to the highschool and I've always noticed that there are 3 lanes on Parkside: Eastbound, Westbound, and Completely Useless Space).

Also Hatt. Holy crap, how does Dundas have no bike lanes? It's the end of some of the city's best cycling infrastructure and has a fantastic dense urban form for cyclists.

Seriously, their to-do list has some great items on it. It's just that the first list should be "built this year" and the second list should be "built next year", not the usual City Hall timeline of "this decade" and "next decade".

Comment edited by Pxtl on 2015-05-12 13:19:06