Comment 93935

By jason (registered) | Posted October 29, 2013 at 20:34:52 in reply to Comment 93901

This point is always forgotten by safe streets opponents (idiotic that we have so many in our city) - Queen is 3 lanes southbound from York BUT the right lane turns rights and the left lane has parking for 21 hours a day. That means that for the most part, only 1 lane is going south through King St. One lane. I would like to see one of these two cross-sections for Queen:

Parking on the west curb, bike lane southbound next to the parking lane, then one southbound car lane and one northbound car lane. Or,

Parking on the west curb, one southbound car lane, then a 2-way protected cycle track. This bike track could be continued all the way along Stuart St to Bay by removing one of it's 4-lanes (I'd love to see traffic data for that street. Brand new, paved, 4-full lanes for a few hundred cars a day probably). A two-way cycle track here would effectively connect Bay St near Bayfront Park and the new GO Station all the way to Queen and Aberdeen. It could link seamlessly to the Cannon cycle track by turning one of the two left turning lanes from Cannon to Queen into a cycle-track lane. It would also connect to the hopeful Napier Greenway someday, the Hunter 2-way protected lanes and the Charlton/Herkimer proposed lanes.

Personally I prefer the 1-way Queen with two-way cycle track cross section, but either option would be better than it's current configuration.

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