Great video! This is my commute... I usually demount and cross at the Ahern sidewalk to get across Bell Road; it's a really strange intersection. It's not uncommon to see people miss the turn where the shared path follows Ahern, and instead ride on the pedestrian-only sidewalk toward Bell... Where they discover that there's no sanctioned way to cross the street to the inbound bike lane.
all about making biking safer for the 1% of the population that uses bikes 6 months a year. ppl use this street as a major traffic route into the city. since there is more than enough room on the commons side of the street for 4+ bike lanes (and also does not further reduce the street for the 99% of the people that use it. ) bike lane planning needs to take into account how many ppl use them compared to how many ppl use the same streets it for cars. but i guess when it is one of the stated goals of city councils implementation of bike lanes is to make driving "painful and very difficult" (quote from my city councilor) the city has been very successful.
@DR-hp6tu The point of bike infrastructure is to induce people to switch from using a car to using a bike. In the sense, they're successful insofar as people can make trips while feeling safe. Driving isn't miserable because of bikes, it's miserable because of other cars. Every person on a bike is somone who's not in a car.
love the roundabout idea for Trollope/Summer/Bell, regardless of bike infrastructure.
Great video! This is my commute... I usually demount and cross at the Ahern sidewalk to get across Bell Road; it's a really strange intersection.
It's not uncommon to see people miss the turn where the shared path follows Ahern, and instead ride on the pedestrian-only sidewalk toward Bell... Where they discover that there's no sanctioned way to cross the street to the inbound bike lane.
Agreed.
Every. Single. Word.
all about making biking safer for the 1% of the population that uses bikes 6 months a year. ppl use this street as a major traffic route into the city. since there is more than enough room on the commons side of the street for 4+ bike lanes (and also does not further reduce the street for the 99% of the people that use it. ) bike lane planning needs to take into account how many ppl use them compared to how many ppl use the same streets it for cars. but i guess when it is one of the stated goals of city councils implementation of bike lanes is to make driving "painful and very difficult" (quote from my city councilor) the city has been very successful.
@DR-hp6tu The point of bike infrastructure is to induce people to switch from using a car to using a bike. In the sense, they're successful insofar as people can make trips while feeling safe.
Driving isn't miserable because of bikes, it's miserable because of other cars. Every person on a bike is somone who's not in a car.