09-08-2018, 06:23 PM
(09-08-2018, 05:38 PM)KevinL Wrote:(09-08-2018, 03:51 PM)jamincan Wrote: Is that the rationale the city has used? This is best practices in the Netherlands, so it should be applied here?
Even then, Dutch practice is to colour a fietspad in its distinctive terra cotta for its entire length. If they want to mimic that, we need this entire bike lane to be bright green, not just the intersections.
I'm not even sure this is best practice. Dutch fietspads generally have roll curbs at the edges between the bicycle path and any boulevard in order to provide people the ability to swerve out of them to avoid an obstacle. But many, if not most, did have a barrier curb between the road and the cycleway--albeit, generally a much smaller curb than here.
Of course, even if the Dutch design applied here, then we should have a barrier curb with the road, and a roll curb with the sidewalk, which would discourage both drivers and pedestrians from walking in the bike path. Something that is a major problem here.
Here is a section of road similar to our King St. You'll notice barrier curbs both where parking is, and where it isn't.
https://www.google.ca/maps/@52.104239,5....56!5m1!1e3
It's almost as if the "experts" don't have any clue what they're talking about....
Or to put it more fairly, my faith in the "experts" for traffic engineering is not very high right now.