Comment 112912

By Pxtl (registered) - website | Posted July 20, 2015 at 12:09:43 in reply to Comment 112909

Exactly.

At least one of the 4 main downtown accesses (Garth, Clairmont, Jolley Cut, or James Mountain Road) should support decent bike lane. The slower ones like JM and Garth could be simply a shoulder-style ones, but the fast traffic on Clairmont and Jolley would demand protection. Instead we have the opposite - the only bike lane is incomplete and is roughly like biking on the shoulder of the QEW.

Obviously, fixing this is a challenge, since protected route on a mountain access would be quite expensive if they put up proper jersey barriers... but on the other hand, Garth and James accesses don't have a full lane to spare like Jolley or Clairmont.

But it seems like City Hall hasn't even thought about this problem, which means we're likely a decade or more from ever seeing action on it.

Wards 1 and 2 now have some good cycling infrastructure - at this point most of our complaints are about small, frustrating gaps and about the quality of the infrastructure, not its complete absense. But in the rest of the city, cycling infrastructure is functionally non-existent, even in places where the improvements would be cheap and obvious and they would connect to existing popular cycling destinations (Hatt St. Dundas, I'm looking at you).

I work at HGH, and the combination of Cannon track and SoBi has created a cycling boom among my co-workers, but I'm still the only one who commutes by bike because I'm the only one coming from within the Ward 1/2 cocoon of minimally decent cycling. And believe me, the #2 bus creates a pretty strong incentive to find a way to get to work.

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