Gronk!
Senior Member
No MUP on Victoria Park Rd. I gather there'll be a permanent MUP this year but who knows when construction will commence.
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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton
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ntt1
Active Member
I'd be interested to see if more detailed design plans become available eventually, because I don't really see how a standard length MUP would fit there without the lane becoming narrower?
TAS
Senior Member
A year-round protected bi-directional on-street lane adjacent to the existing southside sidewalk. The protected on-street cycling facility will have a 3.0m width with an additional 0.6m for the barriers.
The work will include the installation of pin-on-curb barriers with flex posts to delineate the on-street bike lane from vehicle traffic. Mini barriers will be implemented at crosswalks and end points. A raised, floating concrete bus stop will be built to accommodate ETS Stop #1806 along the route. This important missing link is part of the accelerated active transportation network expansion plan.
Sidewalk is remaining as is.
Gronk!
Senior Member
YEG imagineer
Active Member
The Rainbow Valley ped bridge now has a mini moveable cement layer on the western end and it looks like most of the bridge has rebar.
Gronk!
Senior Member
Debate Grows as Edmonton Plans 23 km of new bike lanes for 2025
More Edmontonians are asking the provincial government to throw the brakes on the city's plans to build active transportation infrastructure.
edmonton.taproot.news
trevorhayden
Active Member
Knack announced his run for Mayor. It is front page news on CBC Edmonton, but back page news in the Journal....of course.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Not sure how accurate this is, but us being behind Wpg and Cgy is tough. Highest car use in country. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/240826/t002a-eng.htm
Kosy123
Senior Member
The data here is a bit misleading because it calculates the entire CMA. Edmonton's CMA compared to Calgary and Winnipeg is massive. StatsCan usually collects data on a CMA basis which makes it even more difficult to grab data and conclusions from it.
I really do wish we had municipality specific data because that would be more accurate, but unless we get a municipal census going again, we're not getting anything better for a while.
thommyjo
Senior Member
I find the neighbourhood profiles from the 2021 census to be decent for mode share, but even still, it's so "commuting" focused and doesn't include kids and more accurate "trip" type data. Like I would love to know how many edmontonians bike 100+ times a year, 50+, 25+, 10+, 0. Cause the fair-weather summer bikers still matter as we build infrastructure and so many people are biking beyond just the dozen or so main route counters we have. 50% of the bike trips I take never hit any of our counters.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Accessible and easy to understand data is a needed tool in the fight for active transportation advocacy, so I'm in full agreement with you that we need more accurate "trip" type data.
We got that Downtown data infographic in the Downtown Action Plan, so I'm hoping we get something for active transportation in the future.
TAS
Senior Member
I would be curious what the numbers are for post-secondary students at UofA, MU, NAIT and Norquest.
Even if commuting numbers are very high for driving, there is a lot of potential for other types of weekly trips to be done on modes other than the car. I really wish fewer kids were driven to school, as well.
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ntt1
Active Member
Ugh, bike commuting during school pickup time is the absolute worst. People blocking corners, crosswalks, stopped randomly, pulling out randomly, U-turns wherever they want... the list goes on and on.
Bike theft is an issue at UAlberta and bike cage parking space is limited, however. I rode regularly to UAlberta from the south side, it pretty much took the same amount of time as transit (and shorter than driving) so it was a no-brainer. The gridlock on 114 St, 111 St and University Avenue is pretty horrible.
dkazzed
Active Member
I won't give my kids the option of being driven to school except in the cases of extreme weather when I might drive myself. But that option is diminishing as I am figuring out what I need to ride through more extreme weather and/or deeper snow.
Construction is going full blast on 98 St through Chinatown right now and I didn't realize they were building a shared use path down that street. The owner of Van Loc, a year round cyclist himself, is excited about the shared use path right in front of his shop and improved connections to 105 Ave.
Construction is going full blast on 98 St through Chinatown right now and I didn't realize they were building a shared use path down that street. The owner of Van Loc, a year round cyclist himself, is excited about the shared use path right in front of his shop and improved connections to 105 Ave.
TAS
Senior Member
More and more kids getting driven to school. More driving, more congestion. Less safe for everyone.
If we don't support viable alternatives to driving to reduce some car trips, I really would like to know the game plan when we get to 2 million people with 86% of people supposedly commuting by personal vehicle and all those parents driving the kiddos to school and everywhere else. And then where is everyone going to park on top of it all?