10-07-2018, 06:48 AM
Minimum is going to mean different things to different people, but the idea of a minimum network is that it allows you to travel by bike to the key points you might want to reach in a safe and comfortable manner. The present situation is adhoc. They add lanes where they can fit them and build trails when they feel like it/think of it. Our most important cycling routes still give precedence to the most minor lightly used streets. They dump people off into no-mans land. They don't actually reach key nodes and leave you to fend for yourself when you get off them.
The IHT and Spur Line are probably our marquee bike routes and both suffer from dumping you in no man's land and lacking any priority even over minor streets. E-W options really suffer, particularly when going east as there are few good crossings of the Expressways, the Grand River and Courtland/the rail yards. Signage is terrible.
The IHT and Spur Line are probably our marquee bike routes and both suffer from dumping you in no man's land and lacking any priority even over minor streets. E-W options really suffer, particularly when going east as there are few good crossings of the Expressways, the Grand River and Courtland/the rail yards. Signage is terrible.