robmausser
Senior Member
Its been brought up multiple times but I have a friend on the inside now ill send to him
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Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)
- Thread starter MetroMan
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Its been brought up multiple times but I have a friend on the inside now ill send to him
kali
Active Member
^Councillors Jaye Robinson and John Filion.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
In North York, Highways 401 and 400 are barriers to cycling. We have to detour over to the busy arterial roads, such as Jane Street, Dufferin Street, Wilson Avenue, Sheppard Avenue, Finch Avenue, etc. to get to the other side.
Midtown Urbanist
Superstar
Who knows, this kind of big infrastructure investment could be a funding winner for all the right parties. It's a significant enough of a project to have a whole ribbon-cutting ceremony for all the politicians.
kali
Active Member
Some screen grabs from my dash cam of the Brimley bike lanes.
Impressions
I didn't like the lack of separation at intersections. Drivers turning right are forced to cut through the bike lanes. Same thing for buses when they pull over at stops. And when traffic stops to wait for someone tuning left at a local intersection, some drivers tried to sneak by on the right, crossing the unprotected lane in the vicinity of intersections. The St. Clair intersection is worst of all in this respect because left turning drivers force thru traffic to swerve right and across the lane.
Ideally, these lanes would use the grassy shoulders for full separation along the entire length.
Northbound
Note the lack of separation at the bus stop:
Driver forced to cut across to turn right. Not sure if the grassy shoulder here is wide enough to host the lane. Plus the bus stop, utility poles and sidewalk would need to be moved:
Old habits - a cyclist was using the sidewalk (to the right of the middle grey utility pole):
Southbound
TTC bus cutting across the lane to drop off passengers:
Drivers turning right forced to cut across the lane:
Two more:
Impressions
I didn't like the lack of separation at intersections. Drivers turning right are forced to cut through the bike lanes. Same thing for buses when they pull over at stops. And when traffic stops to wait for someone tuning left at a local intersection, some drivers tried to sneak by on the right, crossing the unprotected lane in the vicinity of intersections. The St. Clair intersection is worst of all in this respect because left turning drivers force thru traffic to swerve right and across the lane.
Ideally, these lanes would use the grassy shoulders for full separation along the entire length.
Northbound
Note the lack of separation at the bus stop:
Driver forced to cut across to turn right. Not sure if the grassy shoulder here is wide enough to host the lane. Plus the bus stop, utility poles and sidewalk would need to be moved:
Old habits - a cyclist was using the sidewalk (to the right of the middle grey utility pole):
Southbound
TTC bus cutting across the lane to drop off passengers:
Drivers turning right forced to cut across the lane:
Two more:
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W. K. Lis
Superstar
" "kali, post: 1582339, member: 81254"]
Some screen grabs from my dash cam of the Brimley bike lanes.
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Cyclists must gather up speed going downhill to be able to get up the other side. No funds to make the cycle lane at the same level as the sidewalk, because they used it for the automobiles instead.
Some screen grabs from my dash cam of the Brimley bike lanes.
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Cyclists must gather up speed going downhill to be able to get up the other side. No funds to make the cycle lane at the same level as the sidewalk, because they used it for the automobiles instead.
kali
Active Member
^There are much more serious problems with that bike lane than an incline which most reasonably fit cyclists can easily climb.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
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kali
Active Member
more like drivers who are forced to cross the bike lanes to make right turns and the buses forced to do the same to pick up passengers.
Northern Light
Superstar
Mississauga moves towards bike-friendliness.
kali
Active Member
Does "bike lane" mean no physical separation from cars?
Northern Light
Superstar
Since they have a separate category 'separated bike lane', I would say yes.
Separated means what it says, so bike lane w/o that term, I assume, means painted.
Though I haven't actually seen the designs.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
robmausser
Senior Member
Can we please embed twitter rather than images?
Northern Light
Superstar
I get nipped at from everyone.
I've been asked to add images
I've been asked to add Twitter links to images
Now I'm being asked to take away images.
LOL, can't win.
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