10-01-2021, 07:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-01-2021, 07:40 AM by danbrotherston.)
(10-01-2021, 07:13 AM)cherrypark Wrote:(10-01-2021, 06:42 AM)danbrotherston Wrote: Sorry, I meant to reply to this yesterday. As far as I know, they've been painted very recently, the signs will definitely be going up soon. Yes, IHT does routinely get the shaft, but I know the CoK staff who are involved and are doing what they can (within the confines of truly awful provincial legislation and regional transportation planning), and FWIW they are making significant improvements at many crossings.
The details of what each crossing will get are here:
One thing of note, the raised crossings will be true raised crossings, where the trail does not have to go down to the level of the road first. They did this on the trail out to Sobeys and it was very poor, so I think they now recognize that a better design is needed.
Great! Thanks Dan, these will be very welcome. If you mean the raised crossing on Patricia, I would agree it wasn't the best execution but a welcome experiment/progress in that direction compared to the historical standard. These will much improve the IHT user experience.
Now if we could only get the region to think again about the Victoria St. crossing...
Yes, the raised crossing at Patricia. I agree, that I'm glad the city is moving forward, but I find the execution so problematic, as to make the crossing worse than nothing---especially at that location. The ride for cyclists is so harsh I spend more attention ON maintaining balance than I do on the crossing, which is obviously a bad thing. I'm very happy that city staff took critical feedback on that crossing and decided to implement the (much more expensive) level raised crossings. I'm told they even have budget to redo the Patricia crossing properly.
That being said, I'm REALLY impressed they are doing a raised crossing on Glasgow. Initially, they did not put a raised crossing at West because "There's too much traffic" which is like...no, that's where you NEED the raised crossing BECAUSE of the traffic (I rarely ever even encounter a car on Patricia). So I'm very happy to see a reversal on this thinking as well. FWIW, I'd rather see them raise the West crossing than fix the Patricia crossing, but honestly, I'm just nitpicking, staff have really exceeded my expectations here.
As for the Victoria crossing, yeah, it really is poor. It's certainly a challenging one, the region isn't willing to actually make the right choices there, but there are also alignment challenges. I'd say the implementation is quite poor, even outside of the scope of the region, but I don't expect to see it improve in the short term, and I don't think it will change in the medium or long term without staffing changes at the region or a direct instruction from council.