06-04-2018, 09:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-04-2018, 09:43 AM by danbrotherston.)
(06-03-2018, 10:59 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: A section of separated (not protected) cycling lanes on University (Erb to Westmount) will begin construction this month:
"Construction is scheduled to start on June 18, 2018 and be substantially complete by October 31, 2018. A full road closure of University Avenue between Erb Street and Keats Way will be implemented during construction of the new road pavement structure to facilitate the construction of this project. The planned detour route will include Erb Street east of University Avenue and Westmount Road south of University Avenue. Surface asphalt will be completed in 2019."
Unless the plans have changed the lanes will be a 0.6m painted buffer:
The Preliminary Design Concept includes 1.5m wide buffered on-road cycling lanes that would be built as an extension of the asphalt road surface but would be separated from vehicular lanes by a 0.6 metre wide painted buffer to increase the separation distance between vehicles and cyclists.
I recall this coming up at council. I know council was pushing staff quite hard to build "(probably roll) curb separated" bike lanes. [These terms are all fuzzy, so its probably better to be specific]. On account of staff saying they didn't want to transition the onroad bike lane to the curb separated bike lane, which is a great excuse to never change anything. And frankly, they were called out in council for apparently not being able to conceive of this very mundane infrastructure: https://bicycledutch.files.wordpress.com...ions03.jpg
Did council not succeed in convincing (or...instructing?) staff to design it properly?
(In staff's defence, they have demonstrated very poor infrastructure transitions in the past...recent past...)