Aiming for Bare Minimum: Why Cycletrack Networks Are the Only Way Forward

[jamincan]

There are loads of examples of short-comings that could be easily fixed that I know of personally. Others probably know of loads of others. Here are some examples:

The Henry Strum Greenway from Victoria Park to Ira Needles is an awesome bike route. There are some improvements that could be made, but on the whole, it's awesome. It ends right at Ira Needles just opposite Glasgow. A bit further along Glasgow is an awesome mountain biking park, the Hydrocut. They really should have a bike refuge-type thing in the boulevard to make it easier for cyclists to cross there, but they don't, and it makes it more awkward and dangerous.

On Thursday I bike down to Mclennan Park. I take the Stanley Park greenway trail down to Weber, and them forced to take an uncomfortable detour on Weber/Dixon to Eckert. No bike lanes or infrastructure to that point, but then nice big bike lanes on Eckert, just emerging from nowhere. I then take a great trail through Wilson Park and then have to make my own way across to Homer Watson. There's a great trailway going west to Fischer-Hallman, but it stops just short of Homer Watson.

Taking the Spur Line to the Laurel Trail through uptown is a mess. I haven't a clue where cyclists are supposed to go once they cross King Street.