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There is one more along 24th Avenue that doesn't appear to be represented here. It is a Seniors housing project by Abanoub Developments, located at 2436 and 2440 22nd Street NW:
Starting at the west end of confed you can go get all the way to James Fowler High school through the park and cemetery. It's too bad there wasn't a good connection through to the old Highland park golf course, as there is continuous green space all the way through to Nose Creek.
Lack of high quality access to the U of C by foot or bike is a huge gap in our city - glad to see this attempt to be address the gap (along with lack of density in the same area). This fits into the larger - and never talked about seriously by the public, media or politicians - is our huge gap in supporting young adult and student culture compared to our Canadian city competitors. Density and active mode infrastructure is such a no brainer to support the area's role, which is likely to become increasingly specialized as a student/university focused one - assuming we let it.
Not biased at all, I think that would be great. One nice thing about 4th is it is a nice straight artery. When I was growing up in Thorncliffe, I used to take 4th as my bike route to get to downtown. It's not terribly busy, and traffic could survive having a cycle track.
Second street would also be great. Only downside is that it doesn't work north of 40th ave. 4th street could in theory carry on all the way to Beddington (via connecting to Centre at 72nd.) I suppose if a cycle lane is added to the green Line north section, that would also work well, but would be as nice as 4th or 2nd..
It would be nice all things being equal, but I don't see how they'd be able to incorporate it.
Yeah, I'd love it, but the space concerns would be a problem. If you were to keep it underground up to McKnight, you could make it 3 lanes plus a cycle track. I think that could work. That being said, is it worth a billion bucks to get a cycle track?
