I'm not sure if I'm reading the diagrams correctly, but it looks like there are protected parking curbs along 2nd on both sides.
The real dumb thing is another win for the traffic engineer proposing a full intersection at 2nd & 13th. All this will do is slow pedestrians (those who are silly enough to not jaywalk on a low-traffic road). Exact opposite of the treatment that a non-main street, primary pedestrian corridor, high-density neighbourhood intersection should have.That's really disappointing. They're scrapping the cycle track and are going with bike lanes. The city might-as-well just leave the road as it is. It's wide enough for bikes now.
I think the city should have bit the bullet, and converted 2nd street to a one-way northbound road, converted 5th street to a one way south bound road and put a segregated cycle track on each road.
New plans for 9th ave cycling improvements:
9 Ave S.E. route improvements (15 St to 20 St S.E.)
www.calgary.ca
The City of Calgary -
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The project will be delayed until spring due to our September snowfall.
My main concern is the bike lane widths. BC's Active Transportation Design Guide calls for a "constrained limit" of 1.8m and an "absolute minimum width" of 1.5m for uni-directional protected lanes. Most of the proposed 2nd St. lanes are 1.25m width. They could've at least reduced the travel lanes to 3.0m to give some extra width. On the west side where vehicles will be parking next to the barrier curb there is still going to be a risk of "dooring".I don't mind the plan for second. They are still going with the protected bike lanes, but having them on both sides of 2nd which is nice. I prefer that to having both directions of bike lanes on one side of the street.
Not sure what you talking about when it comes to the triple right turn on Macleod? Traffic flows so much better now. There are still crosswalks in all four sides. The only thing that has changed is that the right turn traffic goes before the pedestrian traffic. Please explain what you don’t like about it?The real dumb thing is another win for the traffic engineer proposing a full intersection at 2nd & 13th. All this will do is slow pedestrians (those who are silly enough to not jaywalk on a low-traffic road). Exact opposite of the treatment that a non-main street, primary pedestrian corridor, high-density neighbourhood intersection should have.
Other recent dumb things in city centre roads construction:
I love the bike improvements, but sometimes it seems like we can't build even the simplest pedestrian improvement without give car users a side benefit. Many things are coached in language of improving "safety" for pedestrians, while actually slowing them down and promoting a creeping car-orientation on even the most urban of streets.
- MacLeod Trail triple right-turn lane onto 5th Ave, removal of crosswalk.
- Removal of pedestrian blinker cross for fully controlled intersection at 4th Street & 8th Avenue SE to slow pedestrians crossing to the new, parking-free library
There is no cross walk on the east side anymore as a result of 3 turns being installed.Not sure what you talking about when it comes to the triple right turn on Macleod? Traffic flows so much better now. There are still crosswalks in all four sides. The only thing that has changed is that the right turn traffic goes before the pedestrian traffic. Please explain what you don’t like about it?
There is no cross walk on the east side anymore as a result of 3 turns being installed.
Unless it disappeared this week. It was there last weekThere is no cross walk on the east side anymore as a result of 3 turns being installed.
Ah ok thanks for clarifying - it wasn't there when I went through a few times over the past month. Must have between between the signal opening and the painting of the crosswalk back. Long phase advanced greens can also be an issue but at least the requirement to cross 3 roads isn't introduced.The cross walk was there yesterday as well. It has been maintained. One slight disadvantage to pedestrians would be a longer wait time, to permit the advanced right turn phase of the signal.