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I remember this part having a painted bike lane, but maybe I'm wrong? IIRC the bike lane ends at Heritage, and there is work to do in Heritage Meadows.
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I'm happy enough with it. Personally I would have preferred something involving the rafting more, as it's a huge part of the river action, but I get it's only 2-3 months of the year. Trickle Creek is something that might work well on the rafting side..Winner of the river walk west was announced:
The pathway and park design is very cool and quite realistic and well designed for all potential users.Winner of the river walk west was announced:
This would be nice for two reasons. Even as someone who uses the cycling path at most twice a year on a rideshare scooter, and otherwise will only use the ped path, these kinds of paths really make the experience less stressful for all involved.
Remember in Calgary, pathways and sidewalks are usually urban design projects, only roads (and sometimes transit) are transportation projects. Here's a helpful cheat-sheet:
| Network Characteristics | Likely Network Type |
| Network upgrade triggered automatically by the city - through regular monitoring, set capacity standards, and existing city budget processes. Goal is to improve the capacity and quality of the network. | Road |
| Network upgrade triggered unpredictably - usually through an alignment or coalition of political interests, random programs, and sustained public advocacy. Goals vary and are dependent on the coalition of project boosters, not the network's measurable demands. | Pathway |
| Pointlessly curvy, increasing both concrete used to construct, and future travel time | Pathway or suburban road. |
| Curvy, but with the goal to increase travel speeds especially when changing direction | Road, likely an interchange or slip lane. |
| Randomly changing widths and several different "standards" applied within a block for no reason | Usually a sidewalk or pathway if the changing standards reduce capacity. If capacity randomly increases due to breaking standards, it's probably a roadway. |
| Trees and generally nice places to be | Pathway, but typically only the river ones. Sometimes neighbourhood streets and sidewalks. |
| Fairly direct routes with priority over other networks | All roads and LRT |
| Randomly ends | Sidewalk or pathway |
| Maintained in winter with set targets for snow clearing. | Major roads or river pathway only (not connections to them) |
| Haphazard and inconsistent winter maintenance dependent on thousands of individuals with no coordination efforts and no enforcement. | Sidewalk |
| Randomly placed obstacles reduce speed, visibility and network capacity. | Sidewalk |
| Has standards for lighting to allow for safe travel at night | Road |
| Okay to mix different travel speeds | Multi-use pathway |
| Never okay to mix different travel speeds - even when there's no reason to encourage the faster speeds | All road |
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