I used to live across the street from that lane and I love it. I've moved from that address, but still use that bike lane. I don't own a car, so I know I'm in the minority (and even the bike community seems split on it). For me, it feels safer than when Bryant was just a pothole-riddled "bike boulevard" with traffic (including buses) traveling both ways down that street.
It’s an interesting concept to reduce capacity for cars to increase it for bikes, but if it funnels bikes from multiple blocks in each direction for a safer option and then allows cars to have fewer cyclists interfering with traffic on surrounding streets, hopefully it’s a win for everyone.
Last time I visited Mpls, I rented a bike from Tangletown Bikes on 50th & Bryant. Nice folks. Had a great time riding the city lakes and the Dakota Trail!
Thanks the video and review. I really like the Bryant cycle track but I think what remains missing is an intuitive way to both get onto the minnehaha Ave trail to go east or west and the fact that the crossing over minnehaha Creek on a "must walk bikes" way too narrow too bridge that ends at the bottom of a super steep hill (for Minneapolis) and a stop sign is just poor planning with no change in sight. Continuing the trail a block east to aldrich and routing to the bollards where the trail connects would've made a lot more sense to me.
Thank you for watching. Yes, I think the trail design is good and likely part of future planning, but both ends lack a well planned junction with regional trails. Hopefully this is addressed in the future.
this is really cool that they did this
I used to live across the street from that lane and I love it. I've moved from that address, but still use that bike lane. I don't own a car, so I know I'm in the minority (and even the bike community seems split on it). For me, it feels safer than when Bryant was just a pothole-riddled "bike boulevard" with traffic (including buses) traveling both ways down that street.
It’s an interesting concept to reduce capacity for cars to increase it for bikes, but if it funnels bikes from multiple blocks in each direction for a safer option and then allows cars to have fewer cyclists interfering with traffic on surrounding streets, hopefully it’s a win for everyone.
Last time I visited Mpls, I rented a bike from Tangletown Bikes on 50th & Bryant. Nice folks. Had a great time riding the city lakes and the Dakota Trail!
@@ppeterson9359 I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it here.
Thanks the video and review. I really like the Bryant cycle track but I think what remains missing is an intuitive way to both get onto the minnehaha Ave trail to go east or west and the fact that the crossing over minnehaha Creek on a "must walk bikes" way too narrow too bridge that ends at the bottom of a super steep hill (for Minneapolis) and a stop sign is just poor planning with no change in sight. Continuing the trail a block east to aldrich and routing to the bollards where the trail connects would've made a lot more sense to me.
Thank you for watching. Yes, I think the trail design is good and likely part of future planning, but both ends lack a well planned junction with regional trails. Hopefully this is addressed in the future.