(06-15-2024, 02:29 PM)bravado Wrote: So, I asked the local city councillor to look into adding bike racks to the downtown Galt arena. It's a historic spot and really nice. I thought that kids could use some bike parking at a place frequented by lots of kids. After 11 months, I got a reply that it was going to happen.

The results, as always for the City of Cambridge, are insulting, cheap, and useless. Ambition is for the people who live in the places where we go on holidays, not for where we actually live!

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: For the Duke St. transitions, there is no plan...they cycleway is supposed to continue on Duke St. but it won't, hence the transition is broken, by politics.

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for Victoria St. the transition there makes sense to me, in the diagram you have, as you proceed left to right, you come up the bike lane on the bottom side of the image, you cross Victoria on the bottom side, and then cross Duke to get to the bike lane.

The biggest problem here is that we have no idea how the signals will work for this. If there were dedicated bike signals, it would work great. If not, then oh well.

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for the 40km zone signs on Duke, look where the arrows are placing them, in both cases they are in the receiving lanes for vehicles turning ONTO Duke St. so they come from Victoria which is not a 40km/h zone, onto Duke St. which is a 40km/h zone

(07-06-2024, 07:23 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: For the Duke St. transitions, there is no plan...they cycleway is supposed to continue on Duke St. but it won't, hence the transition is broken, by politics.

I thought there was plans to at least paint transition lines and sharrows the the Regional section. Surely turning boxes would be worth painting in the meantime.

(07-06-2024, 07:23 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for Victoria St. the transition there makes sense to me, in the diagram you have, as you proceed left to right, you come up the bike lane on the bottom side of the image, you cross Victoria on the bottom side, and then cross Duke to get to the bike lane.

The biggest problem here is that we have no idea how the signals will work for this. If there were dedicated bike signals, it would work great. If not, then oh well.

In the diagram as it's oriented, the up down crossing over Duke shows both directions which wouldn't make sense in regards to just crossing Victoria St. But I'm realizing the Transit Hub work includes a MUT here, so it does make sense. I was thinking more towards how they handled the transition at Margaret and Wellington, and I guess both options have pros and cons.

I'm assuming a two phase crossing without a dedicated bicycle phase. The Region takes a year to figure out how to turn them on, no chance they can (or more realistically are willing) to do a dedicated bicycle phase.

(07-06-2024, 07:23 PM)dtkvictim Wrote:

(07-06-2024, 03:39 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: As for the 40km zone signs on Duke, look where the arrows are placing them, in both cases they are in the receiving lanes for vehicles turning ONTO Duke St. so they come from Victoria which is not a 40km/h zone, onto Duke St. which is a 40km/h zone

Yes, but there needs to be an ENDs sign on the bottom of the diagram, before crossing Victoria. Otherwise Victoria would be included in this "AREA". There should never be back to back AREA signs for the same speed according to how they've been implemented everywhere else in the region. I have no problem with Duke being 40; I have a problem with it being 40 for 10 meters to the left of Victoria St in the diagram. The amount of speed limit changes (especially the AREAs which I'm pretty opposed to the design language of) has reached the point where I think people are tuning them out. While the overall speed of these roads may have dropped because the 5% of people like me who try and comply are slowing down, the overall compliance rates of speed limits has also dropped which is a different kind of dangerous.

(08-12-2024, 05:32 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: I hope the lights at Victoria and Duke will now cycle on a timer, or that detection loops were added for cyclists. I've waited at this light on my bike for minutes at a time and it would only change once a car pulled up.

(08-12-2024, 05:32 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: Some of these pictures are bit old, but the only thing that changed is the paint was added. The block between Francis and Water hasn't had the top coat added for some reason, so it's been pretty rough for a few weeks now.

(08-12-2024, 06:03 PM)Bytor Wrote:

(08-12-2024, 05:32 PM)dtkvictim Wrote: Some of these pictures are bit old, but the only thing that changed is the paint was added. The block between Francis and Water hasn't had the top coat added for some reason, so it's been pretty rough for a few weeks now.

Is this a new, recent pave after redoing a a street, the first layer of asphalt?

Then it is very common to wait.

You need to let everything underneath settle before putting on the asphalt's top layer as some parts will subside more and others less. Once everything has had a season or two to settle then you apply the top layer which will be thicker where the binding layer has settled more and thinner where it has settled less.

If you put on the top layer right as soon as the binding layer has cooled and hardened (3-4 days) it would just settle right along with the binding layer and your street, driveway, or parking lot would end up uneven. Plus, the dual-layer construction like that also helps it resist frost heave better.

(08-12-2024, 11:54 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:

(08-12-2024, 06:03 PM)Bytor Wrote: If you put on the top layer right as soon as the binding layer has cooled and hardened (3-4 days) it would just settle right along with the binding layer and your street, driveway, or parking lot would end up uneven. Plus, the dual-layer construction like that also helps it resist frost heave better.

This is the story I’ve heard for years from engineers. All I know for sure at this point is that the Netherlands does not do this. When a road is re-opened it is opened with the final asphalt coat. Maybe it’s a weather thing, or a traffic thing, or maybe the story about settling is just BS, who knows.

(08-13-2024, 09:41 AM)tomh009 Wrote:

(08-12-2024, 11:54 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: This is the story I’ve heard for years from engineers. All I know for sure at this point is that the Netherlands does not do this. When a road is re-opened it is opened with the final asphalt coat. Maybe it’s a weather thing, or a traffic thing, or maybe the story about settling is just BS, who knows.

I expect that the ground does not freeze in the Netherlands.

(08-13-2024, 10:03 AM)danbrotherston Wrote:

(08-13-2024, 09:41 AM)tomh009 Wrote: I expect that the ground does not freeze in the Netherlands.

The depth of the freezing is clearly different but we do get frost on the ground some days.

But I’d never heard that it is about frost heaving in winter. Like, that’s usually something that affects subsurface structures mostly. The leaving of asphalt I’ve always been told was about letting the first layer settle and compress under loads before doing the final lift.

(08-13-2024, 02:56 PM)cherrypark Wrote: Unclear on if that cross ride on the north side of the Duke/Victoria intersection means that that sidewalk is a theoretical cycling route or MUT? The rest looks great and is a welcome improvement, however much I wish it went the whole way down Duke.