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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

This is the MUP at 117th St and about 42 Ave. Miniplow cleaned the MUP fine this morning but they never plow the road portion. No bus route so it's never plowed. It's either smush or later gets into icy smooth layers. I wish COE would just clean that too. Equipment is crossing anyways.
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This is the MUP at 117th St and about 42 Ave. Miniplow cleaned the MUP fine this morning but they never plow the road portion. No bus route so it's never plowed. It's either smush or later gets into icy smooth layers. I wish COE would just clean that too. Equipment is crossing anyways.
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311 it and email you councillor maybe? See if there’s a reason crossings aren’t cleared.

I’m assuming it’s for concern of “bumps”. Which arguably is great traffic calming for the crossing 🙂🙂
 
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The Malmo MUP has looked like this since at least Tuesday. Some of the drifts are up to 1.5-2ft tall... still nothing done.

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And a neighborhood connector to a bus stop (Sweet Grass to 111 St near 34 Ave, SW corner). Still nothing done, completely inaccessible. Difficult to even walk, impossible to roll/bike.
 
There were bad drifts to the NW, I opted to only partially ride Wednesday and yesterday to avoid them. Rode on Hermitage Rd this morning, the frozen slush windrows at the bus stops were the biggest hazards. I was happy seeing at least 10 other bike tire tracks on Hermitage.

It's the matter of fact that our city is so spread out combined with the extreme and constant winter weather means we're never going to see Amsterdam levels of winter bike path maintenance. But the winter priority loop needs to be expanded to cover more central core loop. 106 St south to 63 Ave, 104 St/LRT north to NAIT, LRT paths, 102 Ave to 140 St, all need to be cleared within 24 hours.

I think Parks staff maintain a lot of the river valley SUPs and I noticed those get cleared within 24 hours.
 
The new ped bridge beside the Rainbow Valley bridge has the first steel beam up as of this week. And the new ped bridge across Whitemud Drive just east of the Terwilligar off-ramp has both end piers substantially done and the contractors are now working on the centre pier. Hopefully both this bridges will be complete this summer. That would make life so much easier for cyclists from the SW
 
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The new ped bridge beside the Rainbow Valley bridge has the first steel beam up as of this week. And the new ped bridge across Whitemud Drive just east of the Terwilligar off-ramp has both end piers substantially done and the contractors are now working on the centre pier. Hopefully both this bridges will be complete this summer. That would make life so much easier for cyclists from the SW
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And the 142st active transportation bridge
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What a beautiful winter day after the snowfall. If more of our streets were designed, built and looked like this, I would think it would lead to more people walking, and biking. Pics don't do justice to how good this looks and the freshness of the air.

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Most of Edmonton's infrastructure seem to be in MUPs. Also I got a screenshot of the classifications here:

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I'm going to have to disagree with Can-BICS on classified bikeways as high comfort and MUPs as medium comfort, it should be the other way around. Even in Metro Vancouver where the author of the classification system lives, those bike ways are nice and good for adults and older kids who have some degree of comfort in riding with some traffic, but still not high comfort.
 
Most of Edmonton's infrastructure seem to be in MUPs. Also I got a screenshot of the classifications here:

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Yeah, WTH is this ranking. Local street bikeways are NOT AAA infrastructure. If an F250 is legally allowed on the road, even if traffic calmed and all the things. It’s still not safe for a young child or elderly rider.

Big time disagree on that.
 
Sent a 311 report to the city asking if it was appropriate for city staff when asked nicely if they could park their vehicle to the side of bike lane to sarcastically respond "Yea ok." One of them gave me a hand gesture of some sort when they noticed me taking this photo for documentation purposes.
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