[lemongrab]

There's more barrier between the pedestrians and bikes than the bike with vehicles. Wider multi-use pathways, with a dedicated painted bike lane would be better imo.

Can you clarify - do you mean a MUP instead of concrete sidewalks, and also a painted bike lane...(where exactly?) on each side of the road? Something like this?

One tricky thing is speed limits. Based on the design above, I believer they will still classify that kind of bike lane as 'on-street bikeway' (even though it is above the curb), so speed limit matches the road. MUP style are 'off-street bikeways', with a 20 kph speed limit.

Canmore has figured this out pretty well with a 'ride on red, walk on grey' scheme (but obviously more urban and not really intended for higher bike speeds)

 

[DougB]

Alberta eyes national grid push with 2nd B.C. electricity intertie

Alberta's eyeing a second power line to B.C. as part of a bigger plan to connect to a national electricity grid. Could this reshape Canada's energy future?

thehub.ca

This could be an opportunity to export to BC now that it is a net importer and has more or less built out hydro. I fear the push will be for a line through the Peace Country which would be very long and exposed to significant line loss to loop down to load centers in Edmonton and Calgary. Maybe the play would be to build gas fired generation on the AB side of the Peace Country and tie into exisring transmission from Site C/Peace abyob/Bennett.

The best (and unlikely) scenario would be a new line and highway through Howse Pass tying into Mica. It would be much closer to Calgary and Edmonton. Such a line could be used for imports and exports as lots of gas fired generation could be built along the David Thompson corridor.

 

[trtcttc]

Can you clarify - do you mean a MUP instead of concrete sidewalks, and also a painted bike lane...(where exactly?) on each side of the road? Something like this?

One tricky thing is speed limits. Based on the design above, I believer they will still classify that kind of bike lane as 'on-street bikeway' (even though it is above the curb), so speed limit matches the road. MUP style are 'off-street bikeways', with a 20 kph speed limit.

Canmore has figured this out pretty well with a 'ride on red, walk on grey' scheme (but obviously more urban and not really intended for higher bike speeds)

I meant more like the Canmore example. Is bike lane speed limit really followed? If the street is not well used, cyclists go faster. If it's busy with pedestrians, bikes go slower. Maybe I'm not serious enough of a cyclists, but I'd rather be on the pedestrian side with trees/boulevard between me and cars than hoping a little raised curb is going to protect me from cars going 80-100km/hr. While this seems like a very suburban road now, Huxley is getting built out and I assume the density will be quite high similar to other new communities.