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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

I like what I see but it doesn't have to be fancy and should be more compact to fit in an urban environment. I wonder how much this would cost?
 
dkazzed said:
I assume car lanes does not mean roads ie. 1 km of road with two lanes in each direction is 4 km of car lanes.

I wonder if we need to rethink where cyclists are supposed to ride. Children should be on sidewalks but they can sometimes go fast enough to pose a hazard to pedestrians. Adults riding at jogging speeds don't pose a hazard to pedestrians and could be on the sidewalk. Everyone riding at a normal speed are too fast for sidewalks and too slow for arterials. With all the groups I've talked about so far, they can all ride on SUPs. Experienced road bikers can be too fast for busy SUPs and should sometimes be on the road and that's where the marked bike lanes come in handy. We're legislated by black & white laws when perhaps there should be a little bit of grey.
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As a somewhat experienced road cyclist, I tend to even avoid marked bike lanes as often there are too many conflict points, and lots of drivers tend to have an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality with regard to them. As some can average (that is, with stops and slowing down) 30+km/hr on rides and routinely catch vehicles that pass them at the next stop light, the road is often the best place, though not without some careful route planning.
 
TAS said:
Feds just announced money from its Active Transportation Fund to Calgary for bike lanes.
I hope an announcement is coming to Edmonton early next week.

calgaryherald.com

City and feds announce $4.9M for protected bike lanes in the Beltline

The city is planning for a protected wheeling lane with two-way traffic on the north side of 15th Avenue.
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The city should ask for money from the $400 million Active Transportation Fund for the 100th Street pedestrian bridge, which has a cost of $17.6 million and was removed from the 2023-26 city budget - but that could be put back in. If would be so nice to put this project back in play by getting a few million from the feds.
 
When the roads are just to dangerous you need to find a new path.


Edmonton's Whitemud Creek Valley.
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The city can't forget about maintaining bike lanes even though winter is over. There are sections of bike lane where all, or more than half the lane in sections, is full of thick ice from snow that was piled up from the road or sidewalk and has now melted onto the lane creating dangerous conditions.

This was at noon on 102 Ave by 107 Street. I sent to 311.

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PARTICIPATORY PLANNING PROJECT - EDMONTON ROAD REALLOCATION

Now that part-time or full-time working from home is permanent for many people, Edmonton has clearly passed peak car activity, the social and personal health benefits are known, and the climate emergency is forcing us to quickly reduce and eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, it is time to put our roads on a diet. I have joined an international initiative identifying mass road space reallocation.

I have set up this Collaborative Spreadsheet where we can identify the Edmonton roads, mostly arterial and secondary, but also local roads if you feel strongly, that based on your experiences need space reallocation.

Please fill it out as much as possible before the April 30 deadline. If the road you were going to add already exists, but the suggestion is different from what you proposed, feel free to add a comment, because we want to be as collaborative as possible!
 
The 2024 Winter Cycling Congress is coming to Edmonton, February 22nd - 25th

www.yegcyclingcongress.ca

Winter Cycling Congress 2024 | A Bridge to a Healthy Future

The Winter Cycling Federation together with the Edmonton Winter Cycling Congress Planning Committee will host the 2024 Winter Cycling Congress: A Bridge to a Healthy Future. WCC2024
www.yegcyclingcongress.ca www.yegcyclingcongress.ca
 
NathanielBorody said:
I can't wait to go!
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Hopefully the event is a go. Looking into it I see it was cancelled in 2023 due to low registration (the fee was nearly 600 Euros to attend as a two day conference). Host was supposed to be Karlstad, Sweden.

The event didn't happen in winter of 2022 understandably due to pandemic and in 2021 it was virtual. In 2024, for Edmonton, it is being planned as a 4 day event- wonder what that will mean in terms of registration fee.

Hopefully with a Canadian city as host again we can draw good interest from all the major cities across the Prairies along with Ontario/Quebec and the US winter cities where travel to here will be easier and less expensive.

I'm sure the Edmonton committee tasked with putting this on will do a great job.

The international Winter Cycling Congress has been held since 2013 in cities all over the world. It has been hosted by the cities of Oulu, Finland; Winnipeg, Canada; Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Minneapolis, USA; Montreal, Canada; Calgary, Canada; Moscow, Russia; and Joensuu, Finland.
 
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> The Government of Canada is investing $8,900,000 in these projects through the Active Transportation Fund (ATF). The City of Edmonton is contributing $21,80,000.

It might be, but there was a lot of talk during budget deliberations about how some of the $100M could be recouped from federal active transportation grants.
 
"The City of Edmonton is also receiving funding for four active transportation planning studies. These projects will examine missing active transportation connection links throughout the city; complete designs to address missing walkway connections; identify safe crossings and active transportation facilities for 107 Avenue between 101 Street 122 Street; and examine bike infrastructure needs throughout and specifically in the neighbourhoods of Bonnie Doon, Strathern, Holyrood, and Idywyld."

Planning studies? To examine the missing connection links throughout the city? Somehow throught with the Bike Plan and other things that this work was already completed and routes identified.

And identifying safe crossings and active transportation facilities for 107 Ave? What do they mean by facilities?

Ugh, I thought the city was more ready to proceed with some actual new bike infrastructure in 2023 based on the bike plan and we're getting more studies. Certainly planning is crucial, I just thought we were further along.
 
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