Calgary Bike Lanes and Bike Paths

[nickheer]

Bell: Danielle Smith government 'very serious' about a bike lane crackdown

Alberta Premier Smith's government now more committed to stop the growing number of bike lanes and remove some lanes in Calgary and Edmonton

calgaryherald.com

The 15 avenue cycle track isn’t even open yet, is it? Bell’s complaint about that is (unsurprisingly) baseless. And if the 11 street track is partially closed for construction and doesn't really go anywhere right now past 12 avenue, it sure seems pretty selective to pick this spot. We have such a fragile cycle track network that “detours” are, frequently, instructions to dismount and walk. But I guess the problem for Bell, Smith, Davison, and Dreeshen is that they exist at all.

I see loads of fellow cyclists when I commute to work or run errands. You know who else I see using the cycle tracks? People in motorized wheelchairs, in part because we have the wimpiest sidewalks of any city I've been to. The provincial and, increasingly, municipal governments do not appear to want Calgary to function like a city.

Bananas.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Exactly. Those criticizing the bike lanes are unsurprisingly people who don't use them or live anywhere near downtown or even in Calgary.
Then there's our local drunk, Rick Bell who never bothers to do any research at all, and is all about his own anecdotal evidence. There are bike counters at the lanes including 11th street, which is the least busiest of the lanes, but still looks to be getting between 200-300 cyclists per day on week days. Most of that traffic is over a 12-14 hour slot, so roughly 15-20 people an hour. I'm guessing he did his unscientific research at 6:00 am on a Sunday.

 

[trtcttc]

Exactly. Those criticizing the bike lanes are unsurprisingly people who don't use them or live anywhere near downtown or even in Calgary.
Then there's our local drunk, Rick Bell who never bothers to do any research at all, and is all about his own anecdotal evidence. There are bike counters at the lanes including 11th street, which is the least busiest of the lanes, but still looks to be getting between 200-300 cyclists per day on week days. Most of that traffic is over a 12-14 hour slot, so roughly 15-20 people an hour. I'm guessing he did his unscientific research at 6:00 am on a Sunday.

It's also what those lanes could be used for. I'm pretty sure 11th street bike lanes aren't taking away any driving lanes, it'd just be parking if they removed the bike lanes. God forbid you gotta park on any of the adjacent avenues instead.

 

[Mountain Man]

Rick Bell is a crayon eating fool, how he gets the platform he does is beyond me. Eliminating bike lanes will do nothing to improve traffic, and parking directly in front of businesses was very rarely available anyway. Also I can stand on some of our 4-6 lane roadways downtown when there are no cars on them and say how overbuilt they are lol.

Smoky sunrise on the glacier path this morning. This is going to be closed for at least 6 weeks for stabilization work on the Douglas Fir trail above. I'm kind of cynical about this, the work needs to be done but they will absolutely destroy this path if they drive vehicles on it, and I doubt they will finish this year and probably have to come back in the spring.

You can see the water on the path that is coming down the hill from above too, the glacier will be very large this year I bet.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Rick Bell is a crayon eating fool, how he gets the platform he does is beyond me. Eliminating bike lanes will do nothing to improve traffic, and parking directly in front of businesses was very rarely available anyway. Also I can stand on some of our 4-6 lane roadways downtown when there are no cars on them and say how overbuilt they are lol.

That's why so many young people (or even older people like myself) have tuned out the Herald. Their target audience is grumpy boomers, and though still somewhat relevant they are going down the path of the dodo bird if they don't re-invent themselves.

 

[Mountain Man]

That's why so many young people (or even older people like myself) have tuned out the Herald. Their target audience is grumpy boomers, and though still somewhat relevant they are going down the path of the dodo bird if they don't re-invent themselves.

As soon as they started publishing Sun columnists I stopped paying attention to the Herald.

 

[kora]

That's why so many young people (or even older people like myself) have tuned out the Herald. Their target audience is grumpy boomers, and though still somewhat relevant they are going down the path of the dodo bird if they don't re-invent themselves.

The quality of newspaper journalism across Canada and probably the western world, has tanked. I don't think there's a single good newspaper left in Canada. Even the Globe is a rump of its former self.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

The best journalism around seems to be independent media but with those you have to watch for bias, which really you always have to watch for with any media.