Comment 112809

By mdrejhon (registered) - website | Posted July 17, 2015 at 13:15:41 in reply to Comment 112773

Scattered half-hearted paintings of bike lanes don't make it preferable over other bike routes that save 20 minutes.

Even the wonderful but normally-quiet Cannon bike lanes (which for the first time, had more bike traffic than cars, at 10:50pm earlier this week, thanks to traffic from the stadium), suddenly ends at Sherman and there's no separated bike lane taking me the rest of the way to Gage Park (except for the newly added section at the stadium).

I can never feel safe biking to Gore Park; there's no easy bike route to Gore Park that doesn't feel like I'm near an urban expressway. Many would visit our downtown park far more often if we had more people-friendly roads (bikes and pedestrians). But I do feel fine biking on the Cannon Street bike lanes, as a quick shortcut to James Street and now the new West Harbour GO station. -- though I often have to cross Sherman & King (busy road arteries) just to get to the beginning of the Cannon bike lane! That's a reason why not as many people take that bike lane.

The beginning of the Jolley Cut bike lane is dangerous from many angles. It's a dangerous raceway surrounding the beginning of the bike lane, so we don't even bother reaching the beginning of that bike path.

Check out Minneapolis Bikeways animation, 1997-2013 https://gettingaroundmpls.files.wordpres... Cycling began to massively boom when isolated sections of bike lanes finally connected to each other.

We need to fix the problem in Hamilton, including the endpoint of the Cannon bike lanes. The popularity of the local SoBi system shows we've got latent cycling demand that can only grow as we connect bike paths better.

Yes, Hamilton doesn't seem like a bike city. But look at SoBi. We've got latent bike demand waiting to explode.

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