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Cycling and Active Transportation in Edmonton

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the bike infrastructure in the 96 street renewal is actually nice.
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thommyjo said:
104ave also hits numerous schools, then the columbian cafe/LRT station in glenora. So it's not the worst route. But I'm sure detailed analysis would disclose other challenges.

They are planning to connect SPR to 148st along 104ave as a neighbourhood route. then 148st will have a N/S route. So some of it is already in the works.

107ave is a great route still, just some real limitations/trade offs.
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Speaking of: these markings popped up overnight on 104 ave (142-149 st). Silly
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dkazzed said:
I’ve been riding it every month to see the progress. It is actually really nice. I wish the city would standardize on something like this for directional bike lanes.
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Seems like a bunch of the "contraflow bike lane" routes could benefit from this treatment. This whole northeast of downtown stretch between 118 Ave and Jasper Ave has great bones for biking but has kind of been short-changed on the infrastructure front.
 
The ability to relegate bike lanes to secondary streets in the grid patterned, central areas of Edmonton is going to be a good defense mechanism against opposition.

Standardizing secondary streets to support bike infrastructure upon renewal is a good path. The big spending announcement, like the $100 million, probably shouldn't be done again. Hiding the spending in road budgets should be done. The bike lanes are essentially just roadways and sidewalks anyhow.
 
Barnaby said:
The ability to relegate bike lanes to secondary streets in the grid patterned, central areas of Edmonton is going to be a good defense mechanism against opposition.

Standardizing secondary streets to support bike infrastructure upon renewal is a good path. The big spending announcement, like the $100 million, probably shouldn't be done again. Hiding the spending in road budgets should be done. The bike lanes are essentially just roadways and sidewalks anyhow.
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Especially since road improvement budgets have ended up hidden in bike lane costs in the past, like the time the downtown grid was purported to cost over $10 million but the vast majority of that cost was traffic lights that were going to be replaced anyways.
 
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