MissingMiddle
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It's mind boggling to me that there aren't separated bike lanes, here of all places. The bike commute from here to main campus is perfect for students.
For the UD in particular, I would be really curious to know the backroom conversations on this when the neighbourhood was designed.It's mind boggling to me that there aren't separated bike lanes, here of all places. The bike commute from here to main campus is perfect for students.
That is probably the case, so it’s good they made the roads wide because they will eventually need to retrofit a cycle lane.Only thing I can wonder is if they felt the traffic lightness would be "good enough" for cyclists to just ride the road.
We do this from Montgomery. Love having all of the amenities up there even if the hill to get there is a bit of a pain.That is probably the case, so it’s good they made the roads wide because they will eventually need to retrofit a cycle lane.
I can see a lot of people cycling between University, District and the University. Not just people from University District, but people from the neighbourhoods across Shaganappi and across 32nd.
A little broken up but not too bad on the west side. Easy to get around on the roads near the Children's hospital, but I imagine that will change whenever that part of UD starts. Easy to get accross Shaganappi and down to the river through Montgomery or down 16th from Foothills. The path east along 32nd is ok from Shaganappi to Crowchild. I haven't spent much time on the east side of UD, though.What are the regional pathways like around U/D?
Even that is a remarkable departure from cycling best practices or many of the other districts like this that have developed.Only thing I can wonder is if they felt the traffic lightness would be "good enough" for cyclists to just ride the road.
Very poor and of random quality.What are the regional pathways like around U/D?
To amend Surreal's idea, the cycling infrastructure should look something like this with direct, wide, separated and consistent infrastructure to and within the area. You know, kind of like if we imagined people wanted to get around by bicycles we should put consistent travel paths to all destinations, similar to how we did with the area's consistently overbuilt arterial and boulevard network.It would be nice to have a bike path system that carries through U/D and ties into the 24th ave system, as shown in red, and maybe even a spur that connects down to the park kitty corner to the mall, although the road (in blue) is probably sufficient for now. The red dotted line could maybe be an alternative route through the U.
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Thanks for finding that - Kovitz as a shared street is pretty funny as it's totally meaningless. The street is only 3 blocks long, connects nothing to nothing, and will be relatively low traffic. So I guess that means they will do nothing:From a March 2023 construction townhall that UCPG put on:
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Kovits Ave as a cycle lane? Somebody suggested using a 3 Block Rd. with hardly any traffic as a place to put a bike lane?From a March 2023 construction townhall that UCPG put on:
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