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By JustinJones (registered) - website | Posted March 17, 2014 at 12:14:55

Great article, Ryan - thanks for going through the report and putting this together. I'll take a second to say that while I don't think the design is perfect - I'd really love to see green paint in conflict zones and intersections - it's certainly looking to be the best piece of infrastructure for cyclists that Hamilton has installed in a long time.

A couple things of note - the track will be more than 2.8 m wide MOST of the way west of Victoria - Cannon actually fluctuates quite a bit in its width (something that was news to me going in to this), so it shouldn't be too bad.

The traffic modelling that IBI did looks at rush hour volumes, and it wasn't the vehicular delay that was a problem going to 2 lanes west of Victoria, it was the added delays to the HSR. I was informed that the Cannon St. route already has notoriously low flex times built into it, so adding delays would make it run late, and put drivers in jeopardy of missing breaks, potentially leaving them driving for hours at a time without time for a rest - not a great situation. So it's a bit of give and take - I hope that with annual reporting on the project, we'll see traffic moving a bit more sanely down Cannon and perhaps in a year or 2 when everyone realizes that the sky hasn't fallen, we can examine the possibility of making the north side all-day parking the entire length of Cannon.

Foe now, however, let's take the victory as we have it - however imperfect it might be, and ride the hell out of it.

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