[Cowtown]

I figured this was good idea for a thread in this section. Bike paths and bike lanes are are rapidly evolving system in Calgary.

 

[Cowtown]

An article I ran across today highlighting Calgary's downtown bike lane project.

Calgary cycle track network: An overnight success story, 5 years in the making
http://calgarybuzz.com/2015/11/calgary-cycle-track-network/

Image: Tom Thivener, City of Calgary

Image: City of Calgary

 

[bennessb]

This is pretty incredible! Selling safe cycling infrastructure in North America seems impossible sometimes. Do you bike around the city?

 

[Always_Biking]

Awesome idea for a thread! I do most of my biking around Nose Hill or the river paths, but have used the cycle tracks a few times this summer and I'm impressed. I have some pics that I took this summer, I should try and dig them up.

 

[Cowtown]

This is pretty incredible! Selling safe cycling infrastructure in North America seems impossible sometimes. Do you bike around the city?

I do a bit of biking now and then. I took my kids on these downtown bike tracks a few weeks ago, and enjoyed them.

 

[Always_Biking]

I've seen kids using the cycle tracks a few times now, which is great imo. Until these were built I don't think I've ever seen kids cycling around downtown except along the river paths.

 

[Always_Biking]

This is pretty incredible! Selling safe cycling infrastructure in North America seems impossible sometimes. Do you bike around the city?

Totally agree. Agree that's it's incredible, and also agree that it's hard to sell cycling infrastructure. These cycling lanes didn't come about without their share of controversy :-( There has been a fair bit of complaining. Oh well, can't please everyone I guess lol.

 

[Always_Biking]

Bike counts from yesterday from a few points around the core. (https://twitter.com/yycbike_count)
7 St: 416
Peace Bridge: 834
Stephen Ave: 350
8 Ave: 546
5 St Mdn: 314
12 Ave Mdn: 345

 

[bennessb]

Cycle Track Highlights

This Friday, December 11, we'll be presenting the first update on the cycle track network pilot project, since the tracks opened, at the Standing Policy Committee on Transportation and Transit. Members of the public are invited to attend the meeting or submit a letter with their comments. Here’s a sneak peak at some of the highlights you can expect to see. - See more at: http://www.calgarycitynews.com/2015/12/cycle-track-highlights.html#sthash.Ohatn5hq.dpuf

 

[Surrealplaces]

It all looks positive. I'm happy to see almost 1,000 bike trips daily over the Peace Bridge in December. I wonder what the numbers are in the summer?

 

[bennessb]

Interactive map with bike count data.

also, from City of Calgary Bike Program FB page:

Display counters showing real-time bike trips captured from three existing automated counters along the cycle track network are now live! The technology is provided to The City of Calgary by Eco-Counter, the same company that allows us to share the automated bike counts publically on www.calgary.ca/bikedata.
Find the display counters at these locations:
• 5 Street & 9 Avenue S.W.
• 8 Avenue & 3 Street S.W.
• 12 Avenue & 8 Street S.W.
Fun facts:
The display counter on 12 Avenue & 8 Street S.W. is solar powered!
The daily number of bike trips on each display counter will reset at the beginning of every day and the annual number of bike trips will reset on January 1, 2016.
The display column on 5 Street & 9 Avenue S.W. is the second in Alberta (Canmore has the first, located along the Legacy Trail) and the sixth in Canada (Vancouver, Victoria, Canmore, Ottawa & Montreal).

 

[Always_Biking]

Some pics of those bike counters

https://twitter.com/SteveCoutts/status/677606727559356416

 

[bennessb]

Some pics of those bike counters

they are very cool!

 

[Always_Biking]

 

[bennessb]

So they run June to June, right? Since they're starting so high up the bar graph.