Calgary Bike Lanes and Bike Paths

[Mr.Wonderful]

Another few cars parked in the semi-complete 15 ave bike lane lol. The busybody in me also wishes we had a crowdsourced system to report and have vehicles ticketed for these violations. I can't find it for the life of me, but I remember seeing Reddit post from a guy in London UK who shared a list of confirmed tickets the Metropolitan police had issued to vehicles he reported for parking in bike lanes, passing too close, etc, based on his helmet cam footage. Again, the busybody in me...

These long sections with no physical barriers are just asking for impromptu loading or parking. We can only hope that the Calgary Parking Authority and Citywide towing see it for the quota goldmine it will be because I doubt the police will.

 

[lemongrab]

Ooph. IMO these couplets would have been much better as bike boulevards. What they've delivered here is not close to 5A at all. So much time and public blowback for a mediocre result.

There are only two 'protected' ways to access this (5th and 11th, both from the north only). 2nd St SW has mostly crappy lanes to access from the south. So if you use 15th you are almost certainly having to ride in mixed traffic (or use the sidewalk) at some point on your trip anyways. They could easily extend the boulevard west to 16 St SW or beyond (they should still do that anyways, but this would have been the perfect centralized opportunity to introduce the concept).