trevorhayden
Active Member
Doesn't Bird or Lime offer e-bikes as part of their fleet? That can be expanded to winter.
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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton
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thommyjo
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Toronto and Montreal just have such good bike shares. And although we aren’t the same size, density, downtown pop, etc, I can’t imagine we don’t see good success even just from recreational river valley riding in the summer.
It’s also another key datapoint as we work for cycling to expand. Right now, we use silly data like “biking for commuting” in the census, or a handful of bike counters around the city. None of those are great. But growth in trips taken on a city bike share are a huge way to show demand and growth in usage.
It’s also another key datapoint as we work for cycling to expand. Right now, we use silly data like “biking for commuting” in the census, or a handful of bike counters around the city. None of those are great. But growth in trips taken on a city bike share are a huge way to show demand and growth in usage.
ChazYEG
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They both do, and I'd love to see them available through winter
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Kosy123
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More lime scooters > more cars on the road
Frankly I’d love for some sort of city wide statistics on active transportation, like daily bike and scooter traffic on major routes in a really easy visual format.
Having that sort of information be easily accessible and easy to share would shut up some naysayers about this whole issue.
Frankly I’d love for some sort of city wide statistics on active transportation, like daily bike and scooter traffic on major routes in a really easy visual format.
Having that sort of information be easily accessible and easy to share would shut up some naysayers about this whole issue.
thommyjo
Senior Member
Some data here:
Daily Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts Chart | Edmonton - Open Data Portal
This chart shows daily bicycle and pedestrian counts that are currently being monitored along the new bike lanes in addition to some key cyclist/pedestrian traffic areas. The default view shows data for ALL counters for this month. Viewers can filter to view specific counter locations and...
Used to be a monthly visual somewhere as well, but I can’t find that.
Kosy123
Senior Member
Oh heck yeah!Some data here:
Daily Pedestrian and Bicycle Counts Chart | Edmonton - Open Data Portal
This chart shows daily bicycle and pedestrian counts that are currently being monitored along the new bike lanes in addition to some key cyclist/pedestrian traffic areas. The default view shows data for ALL counters for this month. Viewers can filter to view specific counter locations and...data.edmonton.ca
Used to be a monthly visual somewhere as well, but I can’t find that.
I do wish there were some visuals/map data of sorts that was easily digestible for the general public.
IanO
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There used to be a very nice dashboard that was intended for the public and to share things such as this...
BrettB
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Tom at Shifter did an interesting video on Paris' cycle infrastructure transformation. There are lessons here for every North American city, including Edmonton.
TAS
Senior Member
Edmonton hosting Winter Cycling Conference today and tomorrow at Westin. Met officials from Finland as well as US (Anchorage, Minneapolis Boston) and Canada (Toronto, Montreal).
There was interesting presentation by officials from Canmore.
In 2015, they had a mode share of 15% for walking, biking, transit and in 2023 that increased to 32%.
Key things they did were adding new multi use paths and bike lanes, remodel some intersections, reduce some traffic lanes, and reduce speed limits to 30Km/hr on collector roads and some other locations.
One of the bolder moves however was eliminating free parking and instead offering free transit. The new parking revenue covers about 50% of what was lost from transit revenue.
Canmore residents do still get up to 3 hours of free parking per day in the main dt parking area using an app, but people can't just park their vehicles all day like previously.
Impressive to see increase in mode share for active transportation.
Also impressive was the story of Montreal's Bixi bike share program - 3rd largest in North America (NY is #1). Montreal's bike share is now all year round and in 2023 they achieved 11.5 million rides. They have 800 docking stations and average trip length is 3km and often coincides with other means of travel such as transit or walking to get to final destination.
Tomorrow I'm looking forward to hearing from Don Iveson. Sohi provided opening remarks today and shared funny story of growing up Alin India and riding his dad's bike that was way too big for him. Councillors Janz and Salvador were there all day.
There was interesting presentation by officials from Canmore.
In 2015, they had a mode share of 15% for walking, biking, transit and in 2023 that increased to 32%.
Key things they did were adding new multi use paths and bike lanes, remodel some intersections, reduce some traffic lanes, and reduce speed limits to 30Km/hr on collector roads and some other locations.
One of the bolder moves however was eliminating free parking and instead offering free transit. The new parking revenue covers about 50% of what was lost from transit revenue.
Canmore residents do still get up to 3 hours of free parking per day in the main dt parking area using an app, but people can't just park their vehicles all day like previously.
Impressive to see increase in mode share for active transportation.
Also impressive was the story of Montreal's Bixi bike share program - 3rd largest in North America (NY is #1). Montreal's bike share is now all year round and in 2023 they achieved 11.5 million rides. They have 800 docking stations and average trip length is 3km and often coincides with other means of travel such as transit or walking to get to final destination.
Tomorrow I'm looking forward to hearing from Don Iveson. Sohi provided opening remarks today and shared funny story of growing up Alin India and riding his dad's bike that was way too big for him. Councillors Janz and Salvador were there all day.
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Gronk!
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How's the attendance at the Winter Cycling Conference? Think it will be an annual event?
TAS
Senior Member
220 registered delegates but more are coming for tonight's event to hear live podcast with The War on Cars and adon Iveson. It's $25 for tonight and people can still register I believe. (War on Cars name is tongue and cheek because it's what Doug Ford said in previous election - not letting this war on Cars (such a false narrative) from happening.
Today I'm looking to hearing more from Utae from About Here.
Conference changes locations each year. I'm not sure if local organizers (Ever Active Schools).
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TAS
Senior Member
^
I did the conference walking tour yesterday afternoon with about 25 delegates around downtown to hear their comments. People loved the Art Gallery the most. City Hall was well liked as well as Ice District.
People thought the ice district pop up space (by the casino) was really cool - that there was a dt space that could be transitioned to so many uses, ice climbing, volleyball, basketball, Octoberfest etc.
I heard comments - "the city is sure clean."
I did the conference walking tour yesterday afternoon with about 25 delegates around downtown to hear their comments. People loved the Art Gallery the most. City Hall was well liked as well as Ice District.
People thought the ice district pop up space (by the casino) was really cool - that there was a dt space that could be transitioned to so many uses, ice climbing, volleyball, basketball, Octoberfest etc.
I heard comments - "the city is sure clean."
TAS
Senior Member
^ some thoughts i heard this morning of delegates who went out last night downtown - a little sketchy, a little empty.
"It's like Kitchner"
"It's like Kitchner"
ntt1
Active Member
I really hope we see more things being designed like the Dutch-style Hwy 1A & Benchlands Trail /Railway Ave intersection in Canmore (their long term plans seem to call for a few more intersections heading west on Railway ave to be designed in a similar manner - https://www.canmore.ca/your-government/projects/transportation).
One thing I especially like is the traffic light positioning to be at the stop lines rather than the other side of the intersection - not sure if there are laws and regulations around that in the city (there probably are) but even a small change like that can make crosswalks much safer as more people actually stop at the stop line.