TAS
Senior Member
Shout out to NAIT for their safe storage bike boxes.
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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton
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Gronk!
Senior Member
We've waiting for ages for this
ADob
Active Member
TAS
Senior Member
It's unfortunate this ends at 116st and doesn't continue to connect with protected lanes at 109St.
That missing link between 109-116st remains unaddressed with no future date in sight. I lived along 100Ave for a long time and many cyclists, especially eastbound, ride on the sidewalk because it doesn't feel safe riding on that single lane with no curb space.
Avenuer
Senior Member
TAS
Senior Member
I thought it was, too, and we were certainly led to believe that, but nope.
CplKlinger
Senior Member
Sadly not, they say that it's a collector road and thus needs to be done under the separate collector renewal program. They're just doing the design to ensure continuity :/
Avenuer
Senior Member
Sad, I saw the one-way bike lane design and thought that was good, but if they won't construct them for years after, then not good!
thommyjo
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thommyjo
Senior Member
While not a part of Whikwentowin renewal, it sounds like they’ll try to time 100ave renewal in line with the neighborhood to get it all done. I don’t think they want a long term gap there, it just sits under a different funding area and project leadership.
TAS
Senior Member
Hopefully that's the case!
TAS
Senior Member
NAIT is a large campus and these bike boxes are scattered around campus so it does provide safer options closer to where students may be spending their time versus maybe just one location on campus.
degrandprix
Active Member
It's true they are not great for high-volume areas, but I think they are more secure than the parkades. There's lots of people complaining on reddit about the Skytrain bike parkades/storage rooms, bikes are being stolen from them because it is very easy to gain access to the room and once inside, you have privacy to hack away at locks. Seems like even though they have cameras, they aren't actively monitoring them.
The lockers are more secure because you can't even see what's inside to potentially steal. And then even if you broke them all open and found one with a high-value bike inside, you'd have to crawl into the box to start working on the lock, and get showered with sparks if you used an angle grinder.
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/11/24/translink-bike-parkade-theft/
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouverc...=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
thommyjo
Senior Member
Interesting. Appreciate the insights. I haven’t heard negative experiences from my friends using them there. Seems like a gap in security for sure.
The bike lockers are definitely a plus for security, and agreed on how they can be spaced throughout a campus.
They’re just so big and expensive though. So they’re not an awesome solution imo. And often can’t be used if you have kids seats, longtail cargos, trikes, etc. To house just 10 bikes at the downtown library you’d essentially have a solid wall along the whole Western sidewalk. Whereas a Churchill square parkade could hold 50+ in that existing building where 3 bananas was.
degrandprix
Active Member
The bike parkade is definitely a better concept, but it has to be implemented with active security.
Our only example of this is the bike room at Century Park station, which I think is great and use on occasion, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's not monitored (I'm not sure it even has cameras, I'll look next time I'm there). I think the main reason it is secure (for now) is because its a huge pain to get an access card - you have to go to the ETS service desk during business hours and fill out paperwork in-person, and pay a $10 deposit. Security through obscurity!
I imagine if we started building more of them they would use Arc cards for access control and then we'd have the same issue as Vancouver
