Mountain Man
Senior Member
It is a new gravel bike, bought it in July lol.
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Calgary Bike Lanes and Bike Paths
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lemongrab
Active Member
I'm failing to see the issue with darwink's suggestion...
potatopizzafan
Active Member
I have a gravel bike as my commuter as well, I put studded tires and full fenders on for the winter and its awesome, especially fun on the hard boot packed snow of the river pathways.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
My buddy always jokes that the correct number of bike to have is 1 more than you own and 1 less than will get you divorced haha.
FriendlyDrunks
Active Member
It's wild seeing these sort of articles.
calgaryherald.com
Really hope UCP doesn't take after Ford and start ripping out city bike lanes.
Nelson: Calgary's bike lanes are our road to ruin
Many Calgarians imagine bike lanes are a fad, only affecting downtown. Oh no they are now. The city's plan is to build them everywhere.
calgaryherald.com
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
I'd be surprised if they didn't take after Ford. Unfortunately this UCP government seems to be easily susceptible to copying ideas of other conservative governments on this continent without much thought or directive from the local populous.
CBBarnett
Senior Member
It's good culture war fodder for the type of people who like Herald opinion pieces.It's wild seeing these sort of articles.
Really hope UCP doesn't take after Ford and start ripping out city bike lanes.Nelson: Calgary's bike lanes are our road to ruin
Many Calgarians imagine bike lanes are a fad, only affecting downtown. Oh no they are now. The city's plan is to build them everywhere.
The irony is that unlike Toronto, we haven't really built any bicycle stuff recently - and nothing particularly controversial in about a decade. So there's no active issues that can be exploited here. With that said, what is actually happening in reality has been proven to be a weak defense to hyper-partisan politics so wouldn't surprise me if the UCP did this.
And reviewing the Herald comment's section on this - it's hardly a landslide of anti-bike rants as one would have expected about a decade ago with a similar article. Article feels tired and overly-hyperbolic, probably because there's not really a hot-button real issues to connect this too. Seems written by someone who lives the culture wars on social media but hasn't written about reality where there's nuance or trade-offs in a while.
potatopizzafan
Active Member
Wow what a stupid article, I can't believe the hearald published this garbage.It's wild seeing these sort of articles.
Really hope UCP doesn't take after Ford and start ripping out city bike lanes.Nelson: Calgary's bike lanes are our road to ruin
Many Calgarians imagine bike lanes are a fad, only affecting downtown. Oh no they are now. The city's plan is to build them everywhere.
Honestly if the UCP started doing things like ford is, that would be my cue to leave Alberta.
trtcttc
Active Member
Exactly, what bike lanes are we going to rip out of 17th Ave? 10th St NW? 4th St SW? Without getting into the equity discussions of who has the right to use the road, the challenge with Toronto is also that the downtown street network is not a grid. Many drivers want the bike lanes on a side street and not on Bloor. The issue is there is no E-W road that connects the city, so bike lanes on other street will require going N-S repeatedly to connect the lane which is dangerous for the cyclist and pedestrians. Calgary doesn't have this problem (in downtown at least), I actually prefer bike lanes on 2nd St (for 4th Street) and 14th/15th Ave (for 17th Ave). Sure I have to walk a block to get to the destination but the safety of not having to bike with lots of cars turning left/right and the associated vehicle noise is preferable
In saying that we should build more bike lanes on side streets and make them more pedestrian/bike friendly. In Marda Loop for example, 33rd can be the "car" street and 34 can be the walking/biking street. Businesses can decide for themselves which street is better for business.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
I'm not surprised the Herald published that, they give Rick Bell a pretty good podium to spew his crayon eating nonsense. The Herald is slowly becoming the Sun now...
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
They're both owned by postmedia, and sometimes post the exact same articles
CBBarnett
Senior Member
The transition is over, and has been for a while. it’s really been about a decade (or two?) since there was a regular columnist that wasn’t a “conservative voice” in the Herald.
Edmontons paper at least maintains some diversity, having a few regulars that aren’t just UCP talking points or culture war stuff.
Overall all former city newspapers are a shadow of themselves. Opinion pieces get the clicks and it’s really surface level treatment of anything more day-to-day news.
It’s not surprising they post this type of column, but it’s also fairly irrelevant that they do too. Newspapers really don’t connect anymore.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
An article like this in the herald is just preaching to the choir, a choir that is older, and the only people paying for news like this. The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stone. Let them yell into the void. The alternative momentum is already well established.
Woosh
New Member
Yeah this is just the death rattle of a generation unwilling to accept their time has passed.
The heyday of car dependency is in the rear view mirror.
The heyday of car dependency is in the rear view mirror.
CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
Sadly, not yet. But maybe you're stuck in traffic with it sharing a "guess this is the way it is now" smile and shrug as you catch each others eye looking through the driver side window. To continue your metaphor.